Comment by thaumasiotes

> many users won't offhand know how to get their IME to produce characters like ... 儿

One of the most common characters in (simplified) Chinese? It's number 192 in this dataset - http://hanzidb.org/character-list/by-frequency?page=2 - among company like 老、门、先、立、比...

Not to mention it literally defines 儿话.