童子

Chinese

		boy; child; children	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (童子)		童	子

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóngzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thùng-chṳ́
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tông-chú / tông-chír

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóngzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóngzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²-tzŭ³
    • Yale: túng-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngtzyy
    • Palladius: тунцзы (tunczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tung⁴ zi²
    • Yale: tùhng jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹ t͡siː³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùng-chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: tungˇ zii`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tung² zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰuŋ¹¹ t͡sɨ³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-chú
    • Tâi-lô: tông-tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dongzuo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-chír
    • Tâi-lô: tông-tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 童子

1. (literary) boy
2. (obsolete) scholar who has not passed the county level imperial exam

Synonyms

• (boy): 男孩 (nánhái), 男孩子 (nánháizi), 少年 (shàonián); (Cantonese) 男仔; (Hakka) 細倈仔／细俫仔; (Min Nan) 查埔囡仔; (Wu) 猴子 (hóuzi)
• (scholar): 童生 (tóngshēng)

Derived terms

See also

• 孩子 (háizi)
• 小孩 (xiǎohái), 小孩兒／小孩儿 (xiǎoháir)
• 小孩子家 (xiǎoháizijiā)
• (Min Nan) 囡仔 (gín-á)

Pronunciation 2

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tâng-chí

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng-chí
    • Tâi-lô: tâng-tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dangcie
    • IPA (Taipei): /taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /taŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /taŋ²³⁻³³ t͡si⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 童子

1. (Southern Min) wizard; sorcerer
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) child medium

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
童	子
童 Grade: 3	子 Grade: 1

Noun

童子 • (warashi) 

1. A regional dialect term for 'child'.

See also

• 童子 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja