Word information
Simplified哪儿
Traditional哪兒
Pinyinnǎr
Part of speech代
HSK 3.01
HSK 2.0Not listed
Chinese word dictionary
哪儿
nǎr · where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
Character breakdown
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