僮
tóngZhuàng

page

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 童 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

童
童 Sound component
tóng child

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangdoːŋ
Unicodedhung
dgung

說文解字

《說文》：“僮，未冠也。从人，童聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)