Tā xiǎoshíhou shēntǐ chánruò, jīngcháng shēngbìng.
As a child he was frail and often fell ill.
Tips
history
孨 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It stacks three child graphs 子; classically it meant timid or weak, like a helpless orphan. It is indexed under the child radical 子 and is a tripled form of 子, in the same way 森 triples 木.
culture
Online, 孨 is jokingly read as three 子 standing for a house 房子, a car 车子 and a wife 妻子 - a humorous icon of having made it in life.
Components
ideograph
孨zhuǎn
timid; weak; tripled child
Three child graphs 子 stacked one over two - a crowd of helpless children, hence timid and weak. Indexed under Kangxi radical 子. It is a reduplication character like 森 and 鑫, not split into separate components.
Filed under radical 子 (zǐ, #39) by convention. 子 is not a separate component in 孨, so no strokes are highlighted.
