The term 娈童 in classical Chinese refers to a beautiful youth.
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娈 is a strictly literary/classical character; you will not hear it in modern speech. It survives in fixed compounds like 娈童 (luántóng, 'beautiful boy', historically used for catamite) and quotations of 《诗经》 (the Book of Songs). Treat it as a reading-only character.
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Originally meaning 'fond of, affectionate' (per 《广雅》), it shifted to 'beautiful, lovely' through poetic usage. The famous 《诗经·邶风·静女》 line 静女其娈 ('the quiet maiden, how lovely') fixed the aesthetic sense in literary memory.
