僮

僮	U+50EE, 僮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50EE

← 僭
[U+50ED]

CJK Unified Ideographs

僯 →
[U+50EF]

Translingual

Han character

僮 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人卜廿土 (OYTG), four-corner 2021₄, composition ⿰亻童)

References

KangXi: page 117, character 30
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1132
Dae Jaweon: page 249, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 221, character 4
Unihan data for U+50EE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僮
alternative forms		童 boy servant

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僮

Warring States

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Chu slip and silk script

Small seal script

**Small seal script**
s05652

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (重) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
撞	rdoːŋ, rdoːŋs
幢	rdoːŋ, rdoːŋs
橦	rdoːŋ, doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇	*rdoːŋ
𩪘	*rdoːŋ
艟	rdoːŋs, tʰjoŋ
憧	rdoːŋs, tʰjoŋ
畽	tʰoːnʔ, tʰuːnʔ
董	*toːŋʔ
蕫	toːŋʔ, doːŋ
箽	*toːŋʔ
懂	*toːŋʔ
湩	toːŋs, tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈	tʰoːŋ, tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童	*doːŋ
僮	*doːŋ
瞳	*doːŋ
罿	doːŋ, tʰjoŋ
犝	*doːŋ
潼	doːŋ, tʰjoŋ
穜	doːŋ, doŋ
動	*doːŋʔ
慟	*doːŋs
堹	*toŋs
諥	*toŋs
蹱	tʰoŋ, tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重	doŋ, doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟	doŋ, doŋs
蝩	*doŋ
褈	doŋ, tʰjoŋ
鐘	tjoŋ, tjoŋ
鍾	*tjoŋ
籦	*tjoŋ
種	tjoŋʔ, tjoŋs
腫	*tjoŋʔ
踵	*tjoŋʔ
歱	*tjoŋʔ
喠	tjoŋʔ, tʰjoŋʔ
偅	*tjoŋs
衝	*tʰjoŋ
揰	*tʰjoŋs
尰	*djoŋʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tóng (tong²)
(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tóng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tóng
  - Wade–Giles: tʻung²
  - Yale: túng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torng
  - Palladius: тун (tun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tung⁴
  - Yale: tùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: /duŋ/

Rime
Character	僮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋ/
Li Rong	/duŋ/
Wang Li	/duŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tung⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僮
Reading #	1/1
No.	17440
Phonetic component	重
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	同
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/

Definitions

僮

^† boy
^† servant
(historical) page; boy servant
^† ignorant
^† Alternative form of 動／动 (dòng).
a surname

Compounds

僮僮
僮婢
僮御
僮手指千

家僮 (jiātóng)
球僮
僕僮成群／仆僮成群

僮僕／僮仆
書僮／书僮
車僮／车僮

Etymology 2

See 壯.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhuàng (zhuang⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄤˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zong⁶, zong³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhuàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhuàng
  - Wade–Giles: chuang⁴
  - Yale: jwàng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juanq
  - Palladius: чжуан (čžuan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwɑŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zong⁶, zong³
  - Yale: johng, jong
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzong⁶, dzong³
  - Guangdong Romanization: zong⁶, zong³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːŋ²²/, /t͡sɔːŋ³³/

Definitions

僮

(obsolete) (～族) Alternative name for 壯／壮 (zhuàng, “Zhuang (people)”).

Compounds

僮族 (Zhuàngzú)

僮語／僮语 (zhuàngyǔ)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 僮 – see 蹱 (“to stagger along; to fall”). (This character, 僮, is a variant form of 蹱.)

References

“僮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

僮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ずう (zū)
Kan-on: とう (tō)
Kan’yō-on: どう (dō)
Kun: しもべ (shimobe, 僮); わらべ (warabe, 僮)

Korean

Hanja

僮 (eum 동 (dong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

僮: Hán Nôm readings: đồng

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