LianNiChang June 5, 2021, 8:01 pm

Er is what you call someone like your child, spouse, it symbolizes endearment of someone that you are close and fond of. It’s the equivalent of Huang Rong calling Guo Jing “Bong Jing” and vice versa. It’s the translators themselves that probably don’t quite understand because in the old dubbed version the translator always says “Bong Jing” and not “Jing Er” and it would be more correct. Or it could be the translators assume everyone knows Chinese or something. lol

It’s most commonly used from parents/adults to kids, so Huang Rong would say “Fu Er” to Guo Fu her daughter, or “Xiang Er” to Guo Xiang whom is also her daughter. She wouldn’t call them “Guo Er” because that is their surname and not their given name. In Khmer she would be saying “Koun Fu and Koun Xiang. XLN would also call Yang Guo “Guo Er” which would translate in Khmer to “Koun Guo”.

Of course this is Mandarin because in Cantonese if would be “Yi” and not “Er”. I’m surprised the translators used the Mandarin version because this is an HK series which is spoken entirely in Cantonese. But translating from Mandarin into Khmer is easier though. Kwok Jing (Guo Jing in Cantonese) would refer to Wong Yung (that is Huang Rong in Cantonese) as “Yung Yi” and she would refer to him as “Jing Yi”. Wong Yung’s daughter Kwok Fu (Guo Fu), she would refer to her as “Fu Yi” and she’d refer to her other daughter Kwok Seung (Guo Xiang) as “Seung Yi”. It can get quite confusing.

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