僮

僮 U+50EE, 僮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50EE ← 僭 [U+50ED] CJK Unified Ideographs 僯 → [U+50EF]

Translingual

Han character

僮 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人卜廿土 (OYTG), four-corner 2021₄, composition ⿰亻童)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 117, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1132
• Dae Jaweon: page 249, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 221, character 4
• Unihan data for U+50EE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僮
alternative forms		童 boy servant 偅 働／动 𭜀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僮
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script
Small seal script s05652
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doːŋ) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 童 (OC *doːŋ)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóng (tong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²
    • Yale: túng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torng
    • Palladius: тун (tun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: duwng

Rime
Character	僮
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
Baxter	duwng
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tung4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僮
Reading #	1/1
No.	17440
Phonetic component	重
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	同
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/

Definitions

僮

1. ^† boy
2. ^† servant
3. (historical) page; boy servant
4. ^† ignorant
5. ^† Alternative form of 動／动 (dòng)
6. a surname

Compounds

• 僮僮
• 僮僕／僮仆
• 僕僮成群／仆僮成群
• 僮婢
• 僮御
• 僮手指千
• 家僮 (jiātóng)
• 書僮／书僮
• 球僮
• 車僮／车僮

 

Etymology 2

See 壯.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuàng (zhuang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zong⁶, zong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuàng
    • Wade–Giles: chuang⁴
    • Yale: jwàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juanq
    • Palladius: чжуан (čžuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zong⁶, zong³
    • Yale: johng, jong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzong⁶, dzong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zong⁶, zong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːŋ²²/, /t͡sɔːŋ³³/

Definitions

僮

1. (obsolete) (～族) Alternative name for 壯／壮 (zhuàng, “Zhuang (people)”).

Compounds

• 僮族 (Zhuàngzú)
• 僮語／僮语 (zhuàngyǔ)

 

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 僮 – see 蹱. (This character is a variant form of 蹱).

References

• “僮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

僮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ずう (zū)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yō-on: どう (dō)
• Kun: しもべ (shimobe, 僮); わらべ (warabe, 僮)

Korean

Hanja

僮 (eum 동 (dong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

僮: Hán Nôm readings: đồng

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