童 — Chinese character
童
tóng
child, boy; servant boy; virgin
- Pinyin
- tóng
- Radical
- 117 ⽴ (Stand)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 立 里
- Formation
- ideographic — A child standing 立 in the village 里
- Japanese
- 童 as a kanji
Common words with 童
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 儿童 (兒童) | ér tóng | child |
| 童年 | tóng nián | childhood |
| 童话 (童話) | tóng huà | children's fairy tales |
| 女童 | nǚ tóng | little girl |
| 孩童 | hái tóng | child |
| 幼童 | yòu tóng | young child |
| 男童 | nán tóng | boy |
| 童装 (童裝) | tóng zhuāng | children's clothing |
| 学童 (學童) | xué tóng | schoolchild |
| 童子 | tóng zǐ | (literary) boy |
| 神童 | shén tóng | child prodigy |
| 童工 | tóng gōng | child labor |
English words written with 童
童 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4 · I Ching 5 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 8
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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