起小儿

erhua variant of 起小[qi3 xiao3]

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

since childhood

small / tiny / few / young

young child / (humble) my son

(coll.) early childhood / baby boy

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

child / son

non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final