哪儿 nǎr▶ dónde

Stroke order

哪儿 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

• 哪 — 9 strokes
• 儿 — 2 strokes

Senses

1. where?
2. wherever; anywhere; somewhere
3. (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?

Example sentences

• 你在哪儿？Nǐ zài nǎr?Where are you?
• 他去哪儿了？Tā qù nǎr le?Where did he go?

Related words

• 哪cuál
• 儿子hijo
• 女儿hija
• 一点儿un poco
• 这 (这儿)esto (aquí)
• 那 (那儿)eso (allí)

哪儿 is pronounced nǎr and means “dónde”. It belongs to the HSK 1 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 哪儿 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.