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僮

tóng / Zhuàng
noun #40,643

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 3
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.
HSK 4
卓王孙家僮数百人。
Zhuó Wángsūn jiā tóng shùbǎi rén.
Lord Zhuo Wangsun's household had several hundred servant boys.

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