| 尔 | ěr | thus; so; like that; you; thou |
| 阿尔及利亚 | Ā ěr jí lì yà | Algeria |
| 黑格尔 | Hēi gé ěr | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher |
| 扎伊尔 | zhā yī ěr | Zaire |
| 阿尔巴尼亚 | Ā ěr bā ní yà | Albania |
| 哈尔滨 | Hā ěr bīn | Harbin, subprovincial city and capital of Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 in northeast China |
| 梯也尔 | Tī yě ěr | Adolphe Thiers |
| 尼泊尔 | Ní bó ěr | Nepal |
| 布尔什维克 | Bù ěr shí wéi kè | Bolshevik |
| 凡尔赛 | Fán ěr sài | Versailles (near Paris) |
| 达尔文 | Dá ěr wén | Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist and author of "On the Origin of Species 物种起源; Darwin, capital of Australian Northern Territory 北领地 |
| 塞内加尔 | Sài nèi jiā ěr | Senegal |
| 卡尔 | Kǎ ěr | Karl (name) |
| 摩尔 | mó ěr | mole (chemistry); Moore or Moor (name); see also 摩尔人 |
| 萨尔瓦多 | Sà ěr wǎ duō | El Salvador |
| 偶尔 | ǒu ěr | occasionally; once in a while; sometimes |
| 阿尔及尔 | Ā ěr jí ěr | Algiers, capital of Algeria |
| 贝尔格莱德 | Bèi ěr gé lái dé | Belgrade, capital of Serbia |
| 喀布尔 | Kā bù ěr | Kabul, capital of Afghanistan |
| 爱尔兰 | Ài ěr lán | Ireland |
| 厄瓜多尔 | È guā duō ěr | Ecuador |
| 费尔巴哈 | Fèi ěr bā hā | Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), materialist philosopher |
| 托尔斯泰 | Tuō ěr sī tài | Tolstoy (name); Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 战争与和平 |
| 维吾尔族 | Wéi wú ěr zú | Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang |
| 布鲁塞尔 | Bù lǔ sài ěr | Brussels, capital of Belgium |
| 高尔基 | Gāo ěr jī | Gorkii (name); Maxim Gorkii (1868-1936), Russian proletarian writer and propagandist |
| 车尔尼雪夫斯基 | Chē ěr ní xuě fū sī jī | Nikolai Chernyshevsky |
| 贝尔 | Bèi ěr | Bell (person name) |
| 布尔乔亚 | bù ěr qiáo yà | bourgeois (loanword) |
| 希尔 | Xī ěr | Hill (name); Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs |
| 尼日尔 | Ní rì ěr | Niger (African state); Niger River, West Africa |
| 伯尔尼 | Bó ěr ní | Bern, capital of Switzerland |
| 齐齐哈尔 | Qí qí hā ěr | Qiqihar prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龙江 in northeast China |
| 纳赛尔 | Nà sài ěr | Nasr or Nasser (Arab name); Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), Egyptian President |
| 波尔多液 | bō ěr duō yè | Bordeaux mixture |
| 萨尔 | Sà ěr | Saarland |
| 伏尔加河 | Fú ěr jiā hé | Volga River |
| 桑给巴尔 | Sāng jǐ bā ěr | Zanzibar |
| 高尔察克 | Gāo ěr chá kè | Aleksandr Kolchak |
| 艾森豪威尔 | 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 |
| 北爱尔兰 | Běi Ài ěr lán | Northern Ireland |
| 威尔逊 | Wēi ěr xùn | Wilson (name) |
| 努尔哈赤 | Nǔ ěr hā chì | Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 后金 (from 1616) |
| 卡塔尔 | Kǎ tǎ ěr | Qatar |
| 基尔 | Jī ěr | Kiel (German city) |
| 鲍威尔 | Bào wēi ěr | Powell (name) |
| 塞舌尔 | Sài shé ěr | the Seychelles |
| 斯德哥尔摩 | Sī dé gē ěr mó | Stockholm, capital of Sweden |
| 尔雅 | Ěr yǎ | "Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts |
| 科尔 | Kē ěr | Kohl (name); Helmut Kohl (1930-), German CDU politician, Chancellor 1982-1998 |
