ěr
thus
so
like that
you
thou
Hā ěr bīn
Harbin, subprovincial city and capital of Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
Sī dé gē ěr mó
Stockholm, capital of Sweden
Bù lǔ sài ěr
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Gé ěr mù
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Kù ěr lè
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Wéi wú ěr
Uighur ethnic group of Xinjiang
Bù lái ěr
Blair (name)
Braille (name)
Louis Braille (1809-1852), the inventor of the Braille alphabet for the blind
hé ěr méng
hormone (loanword)
see 激素[ji1 su4]
Wēi ěr shì
Wales, constituent nation of UK
Hǎi lā ěr
Hailar district, Mongolian Xailar raion, of Hulunbuir city 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 shi4], Inner Mongolia
Dá ěr wén
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist and author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源[Wu3 zhong3 Qi3 yuan2]
Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia) 北領地|北领地[Bei3 Ling3 di4]
Fú ěr mó sī
Sherlock Holmes, 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯[Xie1 luo4 ke4 · Fu2 er3 mo2 si1]
ǒu ěr
occasionally
once in a while
sometimes
Hū lún bèi ěr
Hulunbuir prefecture level city in Inner Mongolia
wēn wén ěr yǎ
cultured and refined (idiom); gentle and cultivated
Méng tè lì ěr
Montreal city in Quebec, Canada
Shǒu ěr
Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese spelling adopted in 2005)
Qí qí hā ěr
Qiqihar prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
Huá ěr jiē
Wall Street, New York
by extension, American big business
Mó ěr
Moore or Moor (name)
see also 摩爾人|摩尔人[Mo2 er3 ren2]
Kē ěr qìn
Horqin or Xorchin, famous Mongolian archer
Horqin district or Xorchin raion of Tongliao city 通遼市|通辽市[Tong1 liao2 shi4], Inner Mongolia
Hā ěr bīn shì
Harbin, subprovincial city and capital of Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
Hǎi ěr
Haier (PRC household appliance brand)
Hale (name)
È ěr duō sī
Ordos, region of Inner Mongolia administered as a prefecture-level city, and a people of the region
Gāo ěr jī
Gorkii (name)
Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist
kù ěr
Chur (city in Switzerland)
Dá kā ěr
Dakar, capital of Senegal
Xī ěr
Hill (name)
Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs
Mó ěr duō wǎ
Moldova
Republic of Moldova, former Soviet republic on the border with Romania
Pà mǐ ěr
Pamir high plateau on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan
Bā yàn nào ěr
Bayan Nur prefecture level city in Inner Mongolia
Hè ěr
Hull (name)
Kingston upon Hull
Suǒ ěr
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
Xīn jiāng Wéi wú ěr Zì zhì qū
Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, abbr. 新, capital Urumqi or Ürümqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐
È ěr duō sī shì
Ordos prefecture level city in Inner Mongolia
Fēi ěr pǔ sī
Phelps (name)
Michael Phelps (1985-), US swimmer and multiple Olympic gold medallist
Wéi wú ěr zú
Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang
Gē ěr bā qiáo fū
Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995
Bǐ ěr · Gài cí
Bill Gates (1955-), founder and chairman of Microsoft
Fú ěr
Félix Faure (former president of France)
Mài kè ěr · Jié kè xùn
Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American musician and entertainer
Mǐ xiē ěr
Michel or Mitchell (name)
George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009
Wū ěr
Ur (Sumerian city c. 4500 BC in modern Iraq)
Luó nà ěr duō
Ronaldo (name)
Cristiano Ronaldo (1985-), Portuguese soccer player
Qí qí hā ěr shì
Qiqihar prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
Kē ěr
Kohl (name)
Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
Tuō ěr sī tài
Tolstoy (name)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
Hā ěr bīn Gōng yè Dà xué
Harbin Institute of Technology
Duō ěr
Dole (name)
Bob Dole (1923-), US Republican politician, Kansas senator 1969-1996
Ā ěr kǎ tè
Alcatel, old company name
Nuò bèi ěr wén xué jiǎng
the Nobel prize for literature
Wò ěr mǎ
Wal-Mart, Walmart (retailer)
Gē ěr
Gore (name)
Al Gore (1948-), US vice-president 1993-2001 under Bill Clinton, subsequently environmental campaigner and Nobel Peace laureate
Gài ěr
Gaelic
Geier or Gayer (name)
Ěr yǎ
"Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts
Biāo zhǔn Pǔ ěr
Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings
S&P financial index
Wò ěr wò
Volvo (Swedish car company)
Hēi gé ěr
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
Hàn mì ěr dùn
Hamilton (name)
Hamilton, capital of Bermuda
Ā ěr sà sī
Alsace, French department
Lǔ ěr
Ruhrgebiet or Ruhr region, Germany
Hū lún bèi ěr shì
Hulunbuir prefecture level city in Inner Mongolia
Mǎ xiē ěr
Marshall (name)
George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate
Xīn Nán Wēi ěr shì
New South Wales, southeast Australian state
Mò kè ěr
Angela Merkel (1954-), German CDU politician, chancellor from 2005
Bā yàn nào ěr shì
Bayan Nur prefecture level city in Inner Mongolia
Ní rì ěr
Niger (African state)
Niger River, West Africa
Ā lā ěr
Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang
Hè ěr xīn jī
Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland
Qiū jí ěr
variant of 邱吉爾|邱吉尔[Qiu1 ji2 er3]
ěr yú wǒ zhà
lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. mutual deception
each tries to outwit the other
dog eats dog and devil take the hindmost
Ā ěr bēi sī shān
Alps, mountain range bordering Switzerland
Mǐ ěr dùn
Milton (name)
John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost
chū ěr fǎn ěr
old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word
to blow hot and cold
to contradict oneself
inconsistent
Kē ěr kè zī
Kyrghiz ethnic group of Xinjiang
Ā ěr shān
Arxan county level city, Mongolian Rashaant xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia
Ruò ěr gài
Zoigê county (Tibetan: mdzod dge rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan
Sī pí ěr bó gé
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
Ā ěr cí hǎi mò
Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
Bā ěr zhā kè
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
Zhǔn gá ěr
Dzungar, Junggar or Dsungharian basin in Xinjiang
Ēn gé ěr
Engel (name)
Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
Mǎ ěr kāng
Barkam town (Tibetan: 'bar khams), capital of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan
Kǎ ěr jiā lǐ
Calgary, largest city of Alberta, Canada
Ā ěr tài
Altai republic in Russian central Asia, capital Gorno-Altaysk
Zhǔn gé ěr
Jungar banner in Ordos 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯[E4 er3 duo1 si1], Inner Mongolia
Nǔ ěr hā chì
Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 (from 1616)
Gé ěr mù shì
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Ā ěr cí hǎi mò bìng
Alzheimer's disease
senile dementia
Kù ěr lè shì
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
Fú ěr tài
Voltaire (1694-1778), Enlightenment philosopher
Bó ěr ní
Bern, capital of Switzerland
ěr lái
recently
until now
up to the present
lately
also written 邇來|迩来
Shǒu ěr Shì
Seoul Metropolitan City, capital of South Korea (Chinese spelling adopted in 2005)
Bèi ěr gé lái dé
Belgrade, capital of Serbia
É ěr gǔ nà
Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
Kā bù ěr
Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
Wǎ ěr dé
Vardø (city in Finnmark, Norway)
Dá wò ěr
Daur ethnic group of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang
Dí kǎ ěr
René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher
Hū lún bèi ěr cǎo yuán
Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia
Tǎ ěr sì
Kumbum (Chinese Ta'er), monastery in Qinhai, formerly Amdo province of Tibet
dì nà ěr
dinar (currency) (loanword)
Sā qiē ěr
Thatcher (name)
Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
zhuó ěr bù qún
standing above the common crowd (idiom); outstanding
excellent and unrivaled
Wū lā ěr
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Bā ěr dì mó
Baltimore (place name, surname etc)
bǎo ěr sēn
Paulson or Powellson (name)
Henry (Hank) Paulson (1946-), US banker, US Treasury Secretary from 2006
È ěr Ní nuò
El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific
Xīn Nán Wēi ěr shì zhōu
New South Wales (Australian state)
Mài kè ěr · Qiáo dān
Michael Jordan (1963-) US basketball player
Bù ěr jīn
Burqin county or Burchin nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
Bān jiā luó ěr
Bangalore, capital of southwest Indian state Karnataka 卡納塔克邦|卡纳塔克邦[Ka3 na4 ta3 ke4 bang1]
Gá ěr
Gar county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sgar rdzong
Dào ěr dùn
Dalton (name)
John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
Pà mǐ ěr Gāo yuán
Pamir high plateau on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan
Ài sēn háo wēi ěr
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961
Ā lā ěr shì
Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang
Duō ěr gǔn
Dorgon (1612-1651), fourteenth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, successful general, instrumental in Manchu conquest of China, ruled China as regent 1644-1650 for his nephew Emperor Shunzhi 順治帝
Kǎ ěr zā yī
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president from 2004
Liè fū · Tuō ěr sī tài
Tolstoy (name)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
Sā qiē ěr fū ren
Mrs Thatcher
Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr
Bristol port city in southwest England
Sà ěr tú
Sa'ertu district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆[Da4 qing4], Heilongjiang
Bó ěr tǎ lā Měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu
Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang
Kē ěr kè zī zú
Kyrghiz ethnic group of Xinjiang
Nà ěr xùn
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
Mēng dài ěr
Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996
gǔ ěr bāng jié
Eid al-Azha festival of sacrifice on tenth of twelfth month of Muslim lunar calendar
Bèi ěr fǎ sī tè
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
Kē ěr qìn qū
Horqin district or Xorchin raion of Tongliao city 通遼市|通辽市[Tong1 liao2 shi4], Inner Mongolia
Dá ěr fù ěr
Darfur, region of west Sudan
Jí mù sà ěr
Jimsar county or Jimisar nahiyisi in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Fèi ěr bā hā
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), materialist philosopher
Ā ěr bó tǎ
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[Ai1 de2 meng2 dun4]
Kè zī lè sū Kē ěr kè zī zì zhì zhōu
Qizilsu or Kizilsu Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang
Dù ěr bó tè
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[Da4 qing4], Heilongjiang
Hé lín gé ěr
Horinger county in Hohhot 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
Tǎ tǎ ěr
Tatar ethnic group of Xinjiang
Ā ěr jí ěr
Algiers, capital of Algeria
Fù lā ěr jī
Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3], Heilongjiang
Hǎi lā ěr qū
Hailar district, Mongolian Xailar raion, of Hulunbuir city 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 shi4], Inner Mongolia
Lǐ ěr wáng
King Lear, 1605 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Wēn bù ěr dēng
Wimbledon (district of West London)
Wimbledon open tennis championship
Kǎ ěr sī lǔ è
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
Kē nán · Dào ěr
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
Tuō ěr jīn
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒
Lā mǔ sī fēi ěr dé
Donald Rumsfeld (1932-), former US Secretary of Defense
Bù lán nī · Sī pí ěr sī
Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer
Bù ěr jīn xiàn
Burqin county or Burchin nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
Ān gé ěr
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter
Sà ěr tú qū
Sa'ertu district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆[Da4 qing4], Heilongjiang
Ā ěr tài shān
Altai mountain range in Xinjiang and Siberia
Lā hé ěr
Lahore (city in Pakistan)
Ā lǔ kē ěr qìn
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[Chi4 feng1], Inner Mongolia
Chá bù chá ěr
Qapqal Xibe autonomous county in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Pí ěr sēn
Pearson (family name as well as various places)
Hū lún bèi ěr méng
Hulunbeir league (equivalent to prefecture), Inner Mongolia
Ào wēi ěr
Orwell (name)
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 一九八四年
pǔ nài luò ěr
propranolol (beta-blocker used to treat high blood pressure)
è ěr ní nuò xiàn xiàng
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Tǎ tǎ ěr zú
Tatar ethnic group of Xinjiang
Ā lǔ kē ěr qìn qí
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[Chi4 feng1], Inner Mongolia
Qiū jí ěr
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
surname Churchill
Wū ěr hé
Urho district (Uighur: Orqu Rayoni) of Qaramay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市[Ke4 la1 ma3 yi1 shi4], Xinjiang
Jiā ěr wén
Calvin (1509-1564), French protestant reformer
Měi shǔ Wéi ěr jīng Qún dǎo
United States Virgin Islands (USVI)
Ā bèi ěr
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
(math.) abelian
Jí mù sà ěr xiàn
Jimsar county or Jimisar nahiyisi in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Hēng dé ěr
Handel (name)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born Baroque composer, naturalized British in 1727
Xī ěr bó tè
David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician
bù guò ěr ěr
not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre
nothing out of the ordinary
Sāi ěr wéi yà hé Hēi shān
Serbia and Montenegro (after break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992)
È ěr duō sī Gāo yuán
Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia
Ā ěr shān shì
Arxan county level city, Mongolian Rashaant xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia
Shǒu ěr Tè bié shì
Seoul Metropolitan City, capital of South Korea (Chinese spelling adopted in 2005)
Zā ěr dá lǐ
Asif Ali Zardari (1956-), Pakistani People's Party politician, widower of murdered Benazir Bhutto, president of Pakistan from 2008
Ruò ěr gài xiàn
Zoigê county (Tibetan: mdzod dge rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan
Kāi ěr wén
Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson)
Kelvin (temperature scale)
Kǎ ěr · Mǎ kè sī
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
jí ěr dá
gelada (Theropithecus gelada), Ethiopian herbivorous monkey similar to baboon
É ěr qí sī hé
Irtysh river, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean
Wéi jí ěr
Virgil or Vergilius (70-19 BC), Roman poet and author of the Aeneid 埃涅阿斯紀|埃涅阿斯纪[Ai1 nie4 a1 si1 Ji4]
Sū měi ěr
Sumer (Šumer), one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Mǎ ěr mò
Malmo (Malmo city, of Sweden)
Dà hū lā ěr
State Great Khural or Great State Assembly, Mongolian parliament
Kā shí gá ěr
Kashgar or Qeshqer (Chinese Kashi) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
Chén bā ěr hǔ qí
Old Barag banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
Suǒ ěr rén ní qín
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
Mǎ ěr kāng xiàn
Barkam county (Tibetan: 'bar khams rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan
Hé lín gé ěr xiàn
Horinger county in Hohhot 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
Kù ěr ní kē wá
Anna Sergeevna Kournikova (1981-), Russian tennis star and glamor model
Xīn bā ěr hǔ yòu qí
New Barag right banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
Sà dé ěr
Sadr (name)
Moqtada Sadr (c. 1973-), Iraqi Shia clergyman and militia leader
Rú lè · Fán ěr nà
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories, author of Around the World in Eighty Days 八十天环绕地球
É ěr gǔ nà hé
Argun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龍江|黑龙江
Huò ěr bù lǔ kè
Holbrook (name)
Richard C.A. Holbrooke (1941-2010), US diplomat, influential in brokering 1995 Dayton Bosnian peace deal, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009
Xīn bā ěr hǔ zuǒ qí
New Barag left banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
É ěr gǔ nà shì
Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
Sà ěr kē qí
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French UMP politician, President 2007-2012
also written 薩科齊|萨科齐[Sa4 ke1 qi2]
Wéi ěr niǔ sī
Vilnius, capital of Lithuania
Bài kē nǔ ěr
Baikonur (Russian space launch site in Kazakhstan)
Nà sài ěr
Nasr or Nasser (Arab name)
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), Egyptian President
Luó ěr sī · Luó yī sī
Rolls-Royce (UK company)
also written 勞斯萊斯|劳斯莱斯[Láo sī Lái sī]
Dài ěr fū tè
Delft, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
Fù lā ěr jī qū
Fularji district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3], Heilongjiang
Fú lù bèi ěr
surname Fröbel or Froebel
Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1852), German pedagogue
bù ěr qiáo yà
bourgeois (loanword)
also written 布爾喬亞|布尔乔亚
Ā lǔ nà qià ěr bāng
Arunachal Pradesh, province of northeast Indian bordering on Bhutan and Tibet
Shèng Pí āi ěr hé Mì kè lóng
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Kē ěr qìn zuǒ yì hòu
Horqin Left Rear banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[Tong1 liao2], Inner Mongolia
Bā xī ěr
Bashir (name)
Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir (1944-), Sudanese military man and politician, President of Sudan from 1989
Nà zhā ěr bā yē fū
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), President of Kazakhstan
Huò ěr mù zī
Hormuz, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf
Dù ěr bó tè Měng gǔ zú zì zhì xiàn
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[Da4 qing4], Heilongjiang
Chá ěr hàn yán hú
Qarhan salt lake in west Qinghai
Kē ěr qìn zuǒ yì hòu qí
Horqin Left Rear banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[Tong1 liao2], Inner Mongolia
Fú ěr jiā gé lè
Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河[Fu2 er3 jia1 He2]
Qiáo zhì · Ào wēi ěr
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984
Sǎ mǎ ěr hǎn
Samarkand, city in Uzbekistan
Kē ěr qìn zuǒ yì zhōng
Horqin Left Middle banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Dund khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[Tong1 liao2], Inner Mongolia
Wú ěr kāi xī
Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
Fēi ěr zī Jiǎng
Fields Medal (for mathematics, approximate equivalent to Nobel Prize)
Lú bù ěr yǎ nà
Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia
Màn sū ěr
Al-Mansur
Abu Jafar al Mansur (712-775), second Abassid caliph
Mǎ ěr wéi nà sī qún dǎo
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
Hè ěr màn dé
Helmand (name)
Helmand province of south Afghanistan, capital Lashkar Gah
Ào ěr bù lài tè
Madeleine Albright (1937-), former US Secretary of State
Pà dì ěr
Patil (name)
Pratibha Patil, female Indian Congress party politician, president from 2007
Kè lǐ sī tīng · Bèi ěr
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Kē ěr qìn zuǒ yì zhōng qí
Horqin Left Middle banner or Khorchin Züün Garyn Dund khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽[Tong1 liao2], Inner Mongolia
Bǐ lè fèi ěr dé
Bielefeld (city in Germany)
Ā ěr cí hǎi mò shì zhèng
Alzheimer's disease
senile dementia
Kē ěr qìn yòu yì zhōng qí
Horqin right center banner, Mongolian Khorchin Baruun Garyn Dund khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia
Bā dé ěr
Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology
Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group
Chá bù chá ěr xiàn
Qapqal Xibe autonomous county in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Āi ěr jīn
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
Dá ěr hǎn Mào míng ān lián hé qí
Darhan Muming'an united banner in Baotou 包頭|包头[Bao1 tou2], Inner Mongolia
Kē ěr qìn yòu yì qián qí
Horqin right front banner, Mongolian Khorchin Baruun Garyn Ömnöd khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[Xing1 an1 meng2], east Inner Mongolia
Wēn bù ěr dēng wǎng qiú gōng kāi sài
Wimbledon lawn tennis championship
Wēi ěr tè jùn
Wiltshire (English county)
Yè ěr qiāng hé
Yarkant river in Xinjiang
Shèng Sà ěr wǎ duō
San Salvador, capital of El Salvador
Qián guō ěr Luó sī Měng gǔ zú zì zhì xiàn
Qian Gorlos Mongol autonomous county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
Chá hā ěr yòu yì hòu qí
Chahar Right Rear banner or Caxar Baruun Garyn Xoit khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
Chá hā ěr yòu yì qián qí
Chahar Right Front banner or Caxar Baruun Garyn Ömnöd khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
Tài mǐ ěr Nà dé
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[Qin1 nai4]
formerly Madras state 馬德拉斯邦|马德拉斯邦[Ma3 de2 la1 si1 bang1]
Bò bò ěr
Berber people of North Africa
Āi ěr duō ān
Erdogan (name)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-), Turkish politician, prime minister from 2003
Bó pà ěr
Bhopal, capital of central Indian state of Uttar Pradesh 中央邦
Kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo
Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[Ken3 ni2 di2 Hang2 tian1 Zhong1 xin1]
Tǎ shí kù ěr gān Tǎ jí kè zì zhì xiàn
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang
Chá hā ěr yòu yì zhōng qí
Chahar Right Center banner or Caxar Baruun Garyn Dund khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
Fèi ěr gàn nà
the Ferghana valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia)
Dá lǎng bèi ěr
D'Alembert (1717-1783), French mathematician
Wū lā ěr shān
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Ā ěr dōu sāi
surname Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser 路易·皮埃爾·阿爾都塞|路易·皮埃尔·阿尔都塞[Lu4 yi4 · Pi2 ai1 er3 · A1 er3 dou1 sai1] (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher
Bǐ hā ěr bāng
Bihar, state in eastern India
Tài mǐ ěr Nà dé bāng
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[Qin1 nai4]
formerly Madras state 馬德拉斯邦|马德拉斯邦[Ma3 de2 la1 si1 bang1]
Chá bù chá ěr Xī bó zì zhì xiàn
Qapqal Xibe autonomous county in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yi1 li2 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Hé bù kè sài ěr Měng gǔ zì zhì xiàn
Hoboksar Mongol autonomous county or Qobuqsar Mongghul aptonom nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[Ta3 cheng2 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
Bǐ ěr mǔ
Perm, Russian city in the Urals
Ān wǎ ěr
Anwar (name)
Anwar bin Ibrahim (1947-), Malaysian politician, deputy prime minister 1993-1998, imprisoned 1999-2004 on charges including alleged homosexual acts, subsequently overturned
Luó bó sī bì ěr
Robespierre (name)
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794
Bā ěr kā shí hú
Lake Balkash in southeast Kazakhstan
Ní ěr xùn
Nelson or Nillson (name)
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
xī lǐ ěr zì mǔ
Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic letters
Zhào Ěr xùn
Zhao Erxun (1844-1927), modern historian, compiled the Draft History of the Qing dynasty 清史稿
Bō ěr Bù tè
Pol Pot (1925-1998), Cambodian communist leader
Ā pǔ ěr dùn
Appleton (name)
Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere
Gāo ěr chá kè
Aleksandr Kolchak (1874-1920), Russian naval commander, head of anti-Bolshevik White forces
Hé bù kè sài ěr xiàn
Hoboksar Mongol autonomous county or Qobuqsar Mongghul aptonom nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[Ta3 cheng2 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
Dá dá ní ěr hǎi xiá
Dardanelles Strait
Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı
Dù ěr bó tè xiàn
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[Da4 qing4], Heilongjiang
Ní rì ěr hé
Niger River of West Africa
Bù lā chái wéi ěr
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
Sī wéi ěr dé luò fū
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza
sāi ěr wéi yà kè luó dì yà yǔ
Serbo-Croatian (language)
Mù suǒ ěr sī jī
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
lì bó wéi ěr
Libreville, capital of Gabon
Ā ěr cí hǎi mò shì bìng
Alzheimer's disease
senile dementia
Bā kòng Kè shí mǐ ěr
Pakistan administered Kashmir
dé wéi ěr pān
(Dominique) de Villepin (French name)
Tuō mù ěr
Mt Tomur (Russian: Pik Pobeda), the highest peak of Tianshan mountains on the border between Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan
Lā gài ěr
Laguerre (name)
Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician
Kù ěr dé gōng rén dǎng
Kurdish people's party KPP
Xī ěr hé
Syr Darya, Central Asian river, flowing from Kyrgiz Republic through Kazakhstan to the Aral sea
Sà ěr bù lǚ kěn
Saarbrücken, capital of Saarland, Germany
Wū ěr hé qū
Urho district (Uighur: Orqu Rayoni) of Qaramay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市[Ke4 la1 ma3 yi1 shi4], Xinjiang
kè lā sī nuò dá ěr
Krasnodar (city in Russia)
Mài kè ěr · Kè lái dùn
Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park
Sà ěr wēn jiāng
Salween river, flowing from Tibet into Myanmar
Tè gǔ xī jiā ěr bā
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras
Hán dé ěr
Handel (name)
Georg Frideric Händel (1785-), German composer
Kè zī ěr qiān fó dòng
Kezil thousand-Buddha grotto in Baicheng 拜城, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
Chāng dí jiā ěr
Chandighar, capital of Punjab state of northwest India
Shǒu ěr Guó lì Dà xué
Seoul National University (SNU or Seoul National), Korea
Tuō mù ěr fēng
Mt Tomur (Russian: Pik Pobeda), the highest peak of Tianshan mountains on the border between Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan
Gá ěr xiàn
Gar county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sgar rdzong
Fèi ěr mǎ
Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), French mathematician
Ā mù ěr hé
the Amur River (the border between north east China and Russia)
same as 黑龍江|黑龙江
Méi lǐ sī Dá wò ěr zú qū
Meilisi Daur district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3], Heilongjiang
Kāi bó ěr
Khyber province of Pakistan
Northwest Frontier province
gāo ěr jī fù hé tǐ
Golgi complex (in cell biology)
Bān zhū ěr
Banjul, capital of Gambia
Sū bì lì ěr hú
Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖 [Wǔ dà hú]
Bèi ěr hú
Lake Buir of inner Mongolia
bù gān wéi ěr
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Mǎ jiá ěr ní
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793
Paul McCartney, former Beatle
wò ěr fū jiǎng
the Wolf prize (for science and arts)
Dé léi ěr
Dreyer (name)
June Teufel Dreyer, China expert at Univ. of Miami and Foreign Policy Research Institute
Ā fú lè ěr háo
battle cruiser Avrora (Russian: dawn) firing the shot signaling the 1917 revolution, a favorite of communist iconography
Ā fǎ ěr
Afar region of northeast Ethiopia
Afar people
Mò ěr zī bǐ gǎng
Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea
Ā ěr cí hǎi mò zhèng
Alzheimer's disease
senile dementia
Mài ěr wéi ěr
Melville (name)
Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bai2 jing1]
Ā jiā dí ěr
Agadir, city in southwest Morocco
Mǎ ěr gǔ
Mark
St Mark the evangelist
less common variant of 馬克|马克[Ma3 ke4] preferred by the Catholic church
Āi ěr wéi sī · Pǔ léi sī lì
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star
Ā ěr tài shān mài
Altai mountain chain on the border of Russia and Mongolia
Sà ěr kē qí
Sarkozy (name)
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French politician, President from 2007
Kāng tuō ěr
Cantor (name)
Georg Cantor (1845-1918), German mathematician, founder of set theory 集合論|集合论[ji2 he2 lun4]
Bā bù ěr
Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India
Sài ěr nán
Eugene Cernan (1934-), US astronaut in Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions, "last man on the moon"
Bǐ ěr bó
Bilbo Baggins, hero of Tolkien's The Hobbit 霍比特人
É ěr jīn
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
Ài ěr mǐ tǎ shí
Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg
měi ní ěr bìng
Meniere's disease (loss of balance after stroke)
Ài ěr lán hǎi
Irish sea between Ireland and north England
Jié xī kǎ · Ài ěr bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
Sà ěr zhōu
Saarland, state of Germany, capital Saarbrücken 薩爾布呂肯|萨尔布吕肯[Sa4 er3 bu4 lu:3 ken3]
É lè bèi gé · Dào ěr jí
Elbegdorj Tsakhia or Tsakhia-giin Elbegdorj (1963-), Mongolian US educated Democratic Party politician, president of Mongolia from 2009
mǎ kè sī wēi ěr
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Kē pèi ěr
Koper (port city of Slovenia)
Dá wò ěr yǔ
Daur language (of Daur ethnic group of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang)
Zhǔn gě ěr pén dì
Dzungaria or Jungarian depression in north Xinjiang between Altai and Tianshan
Luó ěr dìng lǐ
Rolle's theorem (in calculus)
Qiū ěr jīn
Churkin (name)
Vitaly I. Churkin (1952-), Russian diplomat, Ambassador to UN from 2006
Lā shí mò ěr shān
Mt Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
Tè lā fǎ ěr jiā guǎng chǎng
Trafalgar Square (London)
Lì lè hā mò ěr
Lillehammer (city in Norway)
Guó lì Shǒu ěr dà xué
Seoul National University SNU
Bā sī tè ěr
Basseterre, capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Jí ěr jí sī zú
Kyrgyz ethnic group
also written 柯爾克孜族|柯尔克孜族[Ke1 er3 ke4 zi1 zu2]
Mǎ ěr jiǎ
Marja (also spelled Marjah or Marjeh), agricultural district in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Kè ěr bái
Ka'aba, sacred building in Mecca
Fèi ěr gàn nà pén dì
the Ferghana valley in modern Uzbekistan
Bù gān wéi ěr dǎo
Bougainville island, Papua New Guinea
Wò ěr fēn sēn
Wolfson, Wulfsohn etc (name)
Sà ěr hǔ zhī zhàn
Battle of Sarhu in 1619, in which the Manchus under Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤 crushed four Ming armies
Xī kē ěr sī jī
Sikorski (name)
Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007
Bā ěr kè nèn dé
Jan Pieter Balkenende (1956-), prime minister of the Netherlands from 2002
Nà sā ní ěr · Huò sāng
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
É ěr gǔ nà yòu qí
former Ergun Right banner, now in Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
Dá ěr wén gǎng
Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, Australia
Zhí yè Gāo ěr fū qiú Xié huì
Professional Golfer's Association (PGA)
Kè zī ěr gǎ hā
Kizilgaha (Uighur: red-mouthed crow or border sentry), site of famous fire beacon tower and cliff caves in Kuchar county 庫車|库车, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
È ěr bù lǔ shì
Mt Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains
Tài mǐ ěr Yī lā mǔ Měng hǔ Jiě fàng Zǔ zhī
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Āi ěr lǎng gēn
Erlangen (town in Bavaria)
Ā ěr kǎn tǎ lā
Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
Alcantara, Brazil space launch site
Fèi lā dé ěr fēi yà
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
abbr. to 費城|费城[Fei4 cheng2]
Ān dào ěr chéng
Andorra la Vella, capital of Andorra
Sū shān · Bō yī ěr
Susan Boyle (1961-), competitor in UK reality TV competition
mǐ nà ěr dí
Minardi, Formula 1 racing team
Ā ěr hàn gé ěr sī kè zhōu
Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Hǎi dé ěr bǎo
Heidelberg
also written 海德堡
Lā bāo ěr
Rabaul, port city and capital of New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
Pà nèi ěr
Parnell (name)
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891), Irish nationalist politician
hā bèi ěr
(Webster) Hubbell (former Associate Attorney-General)
Ài ěr bó tǎ
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[Ai1 de2 meng2 dun4]
also written 阿爾伯塔|阿尔伯塔[A1 er3 bo2 ta3]
Bèi ěr mò pān
Belmopan, capital of Belize
Zhǔn gé ěr pén dì
Junggar or Dsungharian basin in Xinjiang between the Altai and TianShan ranges
Bā ěr shě fū sī jī
(Charlene) Barshefsky, US trade negotiator
Yà xī ěr · Ā lā fǎ tè
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat
Dá ěr fú ěr
Darfur (western province of Sudan)
Bèi nà qí ěr · Bù tuō
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
ā ěr fǎ lì zǐ
alpha particle (helium nucleus)
Nán gé hā ěr shěng
Nangarhar province of Afghanistan
Lǔ ěr hé
Ruhr river, a tributary of the Rhine in Germany
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Màn dá ěr
Mandal (city in Agder, Norway)
Lù yì sī · Yī nà xī ào · Lú lā · Dá xí ěr wǎ
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth President of Brazil
Lula
Pān tǎ nà ěr
Pantanal (wetland area in Brazil)
Mǎ ěr kāng zhèn
Barkam town (Tibetan: 'bar khams), capital of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan
shuài ěr cāo gū
to compose in off-hand way (idiom); to dash off
gé ěr fū bō tè
Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi)
Wéi ěr sī tè lā sī
Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897), German mathematician
Mǎ jiá ěr ní shǐ tuán
the Macartney mission to Qing China in 1793
Ā jīn kù ěr
Agincourt (near Arras in north France, scene of a battle in 1415)
Kāi bó ěr shān kǒu
Khyber pass (between Pakistand and Afghanistan)
Lóng gé ěr
former Lunggar county 1983-1999 occupying parts of Zhongba county 仲巴縣|仲巴县[Zhong4 ba1 xian4], Ngari prefecture, Tibet
Pǔ ěr rè wǎ ěr sī jī
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870
abbr. to 普氏
Hè ěr mù tè · Kē ěr
Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
pà ěr wǎ dì
Parvati (the consort of Shiva)
Lā shí kǎ ěr Jiā
Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in south Afghanistan
Méi sī méi ěr
Mesmer (name)
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis
É ěr gǔ nà zuǒ qí
former Ergun Left banner, now in Ergun county level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3], Inner Mongolia
yóu jīn sài ěr nán
Eugene Cernan (Apollo 17 astronaut)
Nǎ mù bā ěr · Ēn hè bā yà ěr
Nambaryn Enkhbayar (1958-), Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politician, President of Mongolia 2005-2009
Lái yī ěr
Lyell (name)
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish geologist
È ěr duō sī Shā mò
Ordos Desert, Inner Mongolia
Rü35 sāi ěr sī hǎi mǔ
Rüsselsheim, city in Germany
fán ěr dīng
valitin (plain wool fabric) (loanword)
É fēi ěr shì
Everest (name)
Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843
transliteration refers to Mt Everest 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan)
Nepalese: Sagarmatha
Xuě fēi ěr dé
Sheffield (City in England)
Āi ěr jīn dà lǐ shí
the Elgin Marbles, the Parthenon marbles stolen in 1801-1810 by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
Zhǔn gá ěr yì lóng
Dsungaripterus (genus of pterosaur)
Sǎ mǎ ěr gàn
Samarkand, city in Uzbekistan
also written 撒馬爾罕|撒马尔罕
Wū ěr gé
ancient name of Ulan Bator
Rè ěr wéi
Gervais (name)
Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist
Lā ěr wéi kè
Larvik (city in Vestfold, Norway)
Tiě ěr méi zī
Termez city in southeast Uzbekistan
Kǎ xī mǐ ěr xiào yìng
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
Kè zī ěr gǎ hā fēng huǒ tái
Kizilgaha fire beacon tower in Kuchar county 庫車|库车, Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
Ào ěr dé ní dǎo
Alderney (Channel Islands)
é fēi ěr shì fēng
Mt Everest (transliteration), Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan), Chinese 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰
Nepalese: Sagarmatha
Ào kāng nèi ěr
O'Connell (name)
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Irish nationalist and catholic activist
Ā lún dá ěr
Arendal (city in Agder, Norway)
Hā mǐ ěr kǎ
Hamilcar (c. 270-228 BC), Carthaginian statesman and general
Sāi ěr wéi yà Mín zhǔ dǎng
Democratic Party of Serbia
Kù ěr tè · Wǎ ěr dé hǎi mǔ
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, Secretary-General of UN 1972-1981, President of Austria 1986-1992
Ài mò lì wéi ěr
Emeryville, town on San Fransico bay, California
Gǔ jié lā ěr
Gujral (name)
Inder Kumar Gujral (1919-), Indian Janata politician, prime minister 1997-1998
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr hǎi xiá
Bristol channel in southwest England
Mǎ gá ěr ní
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793
Paul McCartney, former Beatle
Xī ěr nèi kē sī
Kirkenes (city in Finnmark, Norway)
Mǎ zhā ěr yǔ
Magyar (language)
Hungarian
Tǎ shí kù ěr gān xiāng
Taxkorgan township in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
Xī ěr fú sè mǔ
Hilversum, city in Netherlands
Ā ěr gǔn qín
Algonquin (North American people)
Suǒ ěr zī bó lǐ shí huán
Stonehenge
Salisbury stone circle
Huò ěr téng
Horten (city in Vestfold, Norway)
Gāo ěr jī tǐ
Golgi apparatus
also written 高爾基體|高尔基体[Gao1 er3 ji1 ti3]
Lóng gé ěr xiàn
former Lunggar county 1983-1999 occupying parts of Zhongba county 仲巴縣|仲巴县[Zhong4 ba1 xian4], Ngari prefecture, Tibet
Ài ěr mǐ tǎ jī
Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg
Yóu ěr qīn kē
Yurchenko (name)
Natalia Yurchenko (1965-), Russian gymnast
Yurchenko, a type of jump-off for vaulting
Āi ěr lǎng gēn gāng lǐng
Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory
Mò ěr bō
see 墨爾本|墨尔本[Mo4 er3 ben3]
Ài mǎ niǔ āi ěr
Emmanuel or Emmanuelle (name)
Tǎ shí kù ěr gān zì zhì xiàn
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
Lái wàng è ěr
Levanger (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
Huò ěr mù zī dǎo
Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian gulf
Sī tài ēn xiè ěr
Steinkjær (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
Gé lín nài ěr dà xué
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
Kǎn bèi ěr zhū rú cāng shǔ
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
Luó jié ài ěr zhī
Raziel, archangel in Judaism
Sà ěr pǔ sī bǎo
Sarpsborg (city in Østfold, Norway)
Sāng dé ěr fú dé
Sandefjord (city in Vestfold, Norway)
Sī chè dá ěr
Stjørdal (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
Jié ěr méi zī
Termez city in southeast Uzbekistan
Háo yī dù · Bǐ háo ěr
Hajdú-Bihar province of east Hungary on the border with Romania
ā fǎ ěr shā mò
the Afar desert in Southern Ethiopia
Wéi ěr róng
(Johannes Lodewikus) Viljoen (South African ambassador to Taiwan)
Mǎ gá ěr ní shǐ tuán
the Macartney mission to Qing China in 1793
Āi gé ěr sōng
Egersund (city in Norway)
Guā dá kǎ nà ěr zhàn yì
battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Hè màn · Mài ěr wéi ěr
Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bái jīng]
Lù yì · Pí āi ěr · Ā ěr dōu sāi
Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher
Yī sī mài ěr
Ismail (name)
Shāh Ismāil I (1487-1524), founder of Persian Safavid dynasty, reigned 1501-1524
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Sà dé ěr shì
Sadr city (Shia township in East Bagdad)
Ā dá bǐ ěr
Ardabil in Azerbaijan region of Iran
Mò lì dá wǎ Dá wò ěr zú zì zhì qí
Morin Dawa Daur autonomous banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[Hū lún bèi ěr], Inner Mongolia
Píng kǎ fēi ěr tè
Pinkafeld (Hungarian Pinkafő) Austrian town on the border with Hungary
Háo yī dù · Bì háo ěr zhōu
Hajdú-Bihar county in east Hungary on the border with Romania, capital Debrecen 德布勒森
Tài sè ěr dǎo
Texel island, Netherlands
Ài dé sī wò ěr
Eidsvoll (city in Norway)
guài rén Ào ěr · Yáng kē wéi qí
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959-), US singer and writer of parody songs
Zhān jiāng bù ěr
Janjanbureh river and city in Gambia
Mǎ ěr zhā hè
Marjah, town in Helmand province, Afghanistan
Wǎ hè jī ěr hé
Vakhsh river (upper reaches of Amu Darya)
Pà lā sè ěr shì
Paracelsius (Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541), Swiss alchemist and prominent early European scientist
Sī fú ěr wǎ ěr
Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway)
shī dì lì ěr
Styria province of Austria
Mǎ ěr kè Ào léi lì
Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Wéi ěr fú léi zī
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
shī dì lì ěr zhōu
Styria province of Austria
Fèi ěr gàn nà pán dì
the Ferghana valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia)
Méng dài ěr
Walter Mondale (1928-), US democratic politician, US vice-president 1977-1981 and ambassador to Japan 1993-1996
Yè ěr qiāng Hé
Yarkant River in Xinjiang
Huá ěr Jiē
Wall Street, New York
by extension, American big business
Luó ěr sī · Luó yī sī
Rolls-Royce (UK company)
also written 勞斯萊斯|劳斯莱斯[Lao2 si1 Lai2 si1]
Nà dá ěr
Nadal (name)
Rafael Nadal (1986-), Spanish tennis player
Nà sā ní ěr · Huò sāng
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
Nà shí wéi ěr
Nashville, capital of Tennessee
Mǐ hā yī ěr · Pǔ luó huò luó fū
Mikhail Prokhorov (1965-), Russian billionaire and owner of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA team)
Sà ěr bù lǚ kěn
Saarbrücken, capital of Saarland, Germany
Sū bì lì ěr Hú
Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖[Wu3 da4 hu2]
Háo yī dù · Bì háo ěr zhōu
Hajdú-Bihar county in east Hungary on the border with Romania, capital Debrecen 德布勒森
Háo yī dù · Bǐ háo ěr
Hajdú-Bihar province of east Hungary on the border with Romania
Nuò bèi ěr Wén xué Jiǎng
Nobel Prize in Literature
Xī lǐ ěr zì mǔ
Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic letters
Xī lǐ ěr
Cyril (name)
Saint Cyril, 9th century Christian missionary
Cyrillic
Sū shān · Bō yī ěr
Susan Boyle (1961-), competitor in UK reality TV competition
Mù ěr xī
Morsi, Mursi or Morsy (name)
Mohamed Morsi (1951-), Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood politician, President of Egypt 2012-2013
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Hǎi dé gé ěr
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), German philosopher
Tài sè ěr Dǎo
Texel island, Netherlands
Tài gé ěr
Tegel (name)
Tiger (name)
Tài gē ěr
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
ěr hòu
henceforth
thereafter
subsequently
Pí ěr
Pierre, capital of South Dakota
Wǎ hè jī ěr Hé
Vakhsh river (upper reaches of Amu Darya)
Guā dá ěr Gǎng
Gwadar Port on Arabian Sea in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
Guā dá ěr
Gwadar, free trade port city in Pakistani province of Baluchistan
ruì ěr
riel (Cambodian currency)
Bān chán É ěr dé ní
Panchen Erdeni or Panchen Lama
abbr. to 班禪|班禅[Ban1 chan2]
Bō ěr zī màn
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), Austrian physicist and philosopher
Shā kuí ěr · Ào ní ěr
Shaquille O'Neal (1972-), former NBA star
bèi kè lè ěr
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq)
abbr. to 貝克|贝克[bei4 ke4]
É fēi ěr shì Fēng
Mt Everest (transliteration), Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan), Chinese 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰[Zhu1 mu4 lang3 ma3 Feng1]
Nepalese: Sagarmatha
É ěr qí sī Hé
Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean
É ěr gǔ nà Hé
Argun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
É lè bèi gé · Dào ěr jí
Elbegdorj Tsakhia or Tsakhia-giin Elbegdorj (1963-), Mongolian US educated Democratic Party politician, president of Mongolia from 2009
Huò ěr mù zī Dǎo
Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian gulf
léi yà ěr
real (Brazilian currency) (loanword)
Ā fú lè ěr Hào
Russian cruiser Aurora, firing the shot signaling the 1917 revolution, a favorite of communist iconography
Ā mù ěr Hé
Amur River (the border between north east China and Russia)
same as 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
Ā mù ěr Zhōu
Amur Oblast, in far eastern Russia
Ā ěr tài xuě jī
(bird species of China) Altai snowcock (Tetraogallus altaicus)
Mǎ kè sī wēi ěr
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Mǎ ěr kǎ Hé
Malka River, Russia, a.k.a. Balyksu River
Lǔ ěr Hé
Ruhr River, a tributary of the Rhine in Germany
Gāo ěr jī fù hé tǐ
Golgi complex (in cell biology)
Mǎ lǐ bó ěr
Maribor, 2nd biggest city in Slovenia
Mǎ ěr wéi nà sī Qún dǎo
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
Mǎ ěr kě fū guò chéng
Markov process (mathematics)
ā ěr tài zǐ wǎn
flower or herb of Heteropappus altaicus (used in TCM)
Flos seu Herba Heteropappi altaici
Ā ěr tài Shān
Altai mountain range in Xinjiang and Siberia
Dá dá ní ěr Hǎi xiá
Dardanelles Strait
Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı
Dá ěr mǎ tí yà
Dalmatia, Croatian region on the eastern coast of Adriatic Sea
Hè ěr mù tè · Kē ěr
Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998
Hè màn · Mài ěr wéi ěr
Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bai2 jing1]
Fèi ěr gàn nà Pén dì
the Ferghana Valley in modern Uzbekistan
Bèi ěr Hú
Buir Lake of Inner Mongolia
Bèi ěr gé lè
Belgrade, capital of Serbia (Tw)
Bèi ěr mò bāng
Belmopan, capital of Belize (Tw)
Bèi nà qí ěr · Bù tuō
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
Mài kè ěr · Jié kè xùn
Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American musician and entertainer
Mài kè ěr · Kè lái dùn
Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park
Ā ěr jiā wéi
the Algarve (southern region of Portugal)
Ā fǎ ěr Shā mò
Afar Desert, Southern Ethiopia
Ā sī pèi ěr gé ěr
Hans Asperger (1906-1980), Austrian pediatrician
Xī ěr Hé
Syr Darya, Central Asian river, flowing from Kyrgiz Republic through Kazakhstan to the Aral sea
Nǎ mù bā ěr · Ēn hè bā yà ěr
Nambaryn Enkhbayar (1958-), Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politician, President of Mongolia 2005-2009
Mài kè ěr · Qiáo dān
Michael Jordan (1963-) US basketball player
Ní rì ěr Hé
Niger River of West Africa
Āi ěr wéi sī · Pǔ léi sī lì
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star
Guó lì Shǒu ěr Dà xué
Seoul National University SNU
Qiáo zhì · Bù ěr
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and the inventor of Boolean logic
Qiáo zhì · Ào wēi ěr
George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984
Kā ěr bā qiān Shān mài
Carpathian Mountains, 1500-km mountain range in Central and Eastern Europe
Sāi ěr wéi yà Kè luó dì yà yǔ
Serbo-Croatian (language)
Yóu jīn · Sài ěr nán
Eugene Cernan (1934-), US astronaut in Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions, "last man on the moon"
Chá ěr hán Yán hú
Qarhan Salt Lake in west Qinghai
Chá hā ěr
Chahar Province (former province in North China existing from 1912-1936)
Ào ěr dé ní Dǎo
Alderney (Channel Islands)
Sāi mú ěr · Yuē hàn xùn
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
Kā ěr kā
Khalkha, largest subgroup of Mongol people
Hā bèi ěr
Habel, Haber or Hubbell (name)
Harbel (town in Liberia)
Rú lè · Fán ěr nà
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories, author of Around the World in Eighty Days 八十天环绕地球
Jié xī kǎ · Ài ěr bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
Bǎo ěr sēn
Paulson or Powellson (name)
Henry (Hank) Paulson (1946-), US banker, US Treasury Secretary from 2006
Yà xī ěr · Ā lā fǎ tè
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat
Kè lǐ sī tīng · Bèi ěr
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
Liè fū · Tuō ěr sī tài
Tolstoy (name)
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
Lǚ sāi ěr sī hǎi mǔ
Rüsselsheim, city in Germany
Gǔ ěr bāng jié
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
Gǔ ěr bān tōng gǔ tè Shā mò
Gurbantunggut Desert, northern Xinjiang
Cān kǎ ěr
Ivan Cankar (1876-1918), Slovenian modernist writer
Kǎ ěr · Mǎ kè sī
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Jiā suǒ ěr
Gasol (name)
Pau Gasol (1980-), Spanish professional basketball player (NBA)
Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player (NBA)
Lì bó wéi ěr
Libreville, capital of Gabon
Wò ěr tè · Huì tè màn
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist and journalist
Sā qiē ěr Fū ren
Mrs Thatcher
Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Lā shí mò ěr Shān
Mt Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
Dūn kè ěr kè
Dunkirk, port in northern France
Wò kè sī háo ěr
Vauxhall (English car brand and city)
Bǐ ěr · Gài cí
Bill Gates (1955-), founder and chairman of Microsoft
Gé sà ěr
King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle
Gé ěr fū Bō tè
Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi)
Gé lín nài ěr Dà xué
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
Kē nán · Dào ěr
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author of the Sherlock Holmes stories 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯
Chá ěr sī · Dí gēng sī
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
Tuō ěr sī Gǎng
Tórshavn, capital of Faroe Islands
tuō lā ěr
(loanword) tolar, former currency of Slovenia
name for the silver coin and the main currency in Bohemia from 16th-18th century
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr Hǎi xiá
Bristol Channel in southwest England
Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr
Bristol port city in southwest England
Bù lán nī · Sī pí ěr sī
Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer
Bù gān wéi ěr Dǎo
Bougainville island, Papua New Guinea
Bù shí ěr
Bushehr Province of south Iran, bordering on the Persian Gulf
Bushehr, port city, capital of Bushehr Province
Bā ěr kā shí Hú
Lake Balkhash in southeast Kazakhstan
Pà lì jī ěr
Palikir, capital of the Federated States of Micronesia
Gē péi ěr
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader and politician
Ài ěr lán Hǎi
Irish Sea between Ireland and north England
guài rén Ào ěr · Yáng kē wéi qí
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959-), US singer and writer of parody songs
Dé wéi ěr pān
(Dominique) de Villepin (French name)
Kù ěr tè · Wǎ ěr dé hǎi mǔ
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, secretary-general of UN 1972-1981, president of Austria 1986-1992
Kù ěr dé Gōng rén dǎng
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PPK)
Kù ěr
Chur (city in Switzerland)
Ní bó ěr jiāo méi
(bird species of China) Nepal wren-babbler (Pnoepyga immaculata)