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僮

tóng / Zhuàng
noun #40,643

Meanings

  1. 1 a servant boy; a young male servant (literary)
  2. 2 a youth; a person not yet of age

Examples

卓王孙家僮数百人。
Zhuó Wángsūn jiā tóng shùbǎi rén.
Lord Zhuo Wangsun's household had several hundred servant boys.
他被卖去别人家做僮。
Tā bèi mài qù biéren jiā zuò tóng.
He was sold to be a servant boy in another household.

Tips

history
Read tóng, 僮 is the classical word for a boy servant or a youth, common in 家僮 ('household boy servant'). In modern writing the 'young child' sense is normally written 童.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person
亻 is the person radical, the left-side form of 人. It marks 僮 as a kind of person, here a boy servant.
phonetic
童 tóng
child
童 supplies the exact sound tóng and a strong hint of meaning: a 'child' beside the person radical, exactly the young servant that 僮 names.

Stroke Order

僮 tóng