| 男 |
nán ér | a (real) man / boy / son |
| 男 |
nán | (bound form) male / baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位 |
| 儿 |
rén | variant of 人 / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc |
| 儿 |
ér | child / son |
| 儿 |
r | non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final |