在哪儿 – Chinese example sentence

zài = z + ai4

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

where? / wherever / anywhere

nǎ = n + a3

how / which

na = n + a5

(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")

né = n + e2

used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1] / Taiwan pr. [nuo2]

něi = n + ei3

which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)

rén = r + (e)n2

variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc

ér = Ø + Ø2

child / son

non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final