童

童 U+7AE5, 童
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AE5
← 竤
[U+7AE4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 竦 →
[U+7AE6]
See also: 𝌑

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese stroke order

Han character

童 (radical 117, 立+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田土 (YTWG), four-corner 00104, composition ⿱立里)

References

  • KangXi: page 871, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25775
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1302, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2711, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7AE5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 童

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 童
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (重) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撞 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
幢 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
橦 *rdoːŋ, *doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇 *rdoːŋ
𩪘 *rdoːŋ
艟 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
憧 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
畽 *tʰoːnʔ, *tʰuːnʔ
董 *toːŋʔ
蕫 *toːŋʔ, *doːŋ
箽 *toːŋʔ
懂 *toːŋʔ
湩 *toːŋs, *tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈 *tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童 *doːŋ
僮 *doːŋ
瞳 *doːŋ
罿 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
犝 *doːŋ
潼 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
穜 *doːŋ, *doŋ
動 *doːŋʔ
慟 *doːŋs
堹 *toŋs
諥 *toŋs
蹱 *tʰoŋ, *tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重 *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟 *doŋ, *doŋs
蝩 *doŋ
褈 *doŋ, *tʰjoŋ
鐘 *tjoŋ, *tjoŋ
鍾 *tjoŋ
籦 *tjoŋ
種 *tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs
腫 *tjoŋʔ
踵 *tjoŋʔ
歱 *tjoŋʔ
喠 *tjoŋʔ, *tʰjoŋʔ
偅 *tjoŋs
衝 *tʰjoŋ
揰 *tʰjoŋs
尰 *djoŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意)  : A needle 䇂 (abbreviated to 立) going through a slave's eye. In ancient China, slaves were blinded. Compare 民.

It is also possible that it is a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *doːŋ) : semantic 立 + phonetic 重 (OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs). The bottom component is unrelated to 里.

Original meaning was “boy servant”.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tông - literary;
  • tâng - vernacular.
Rime
Character 童
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /duŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /duŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /duŋ/
Wang
Li		 /duŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tóng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 童
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tóng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ duwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ˤoŋ/
English boy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 童
Reading # 1/1
No. 17439
Phonetic
component		 重
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 同
Old
Chinese		 /*doːŋ/
Notes 說文重省聲

Definitions

童

  1. child
    兒童 / 儿童  ―  értóng  ―  child
    童子  ―  tóngzǐ  ―  boy
    童年  ―  tóngnián  ―  childhood
  2. † young servant; servant boy
    門童 / 门童  ―  méntóng  ―  doorman
    書童 / 书童  ―  shūtóng  ―  page boy
    球童  ―  qiútóng  ―  caddie
  3. † virgin
  4. † bare; exposed
  5. A surname​.
  6. 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness"

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

童

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. juvenile, child

Readings

Korean

Hanja

童 • (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune–Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

童 (đồng)

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