# 僮

| 僮 | U+50EE, &#20718; 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 2021$_4$, composition ⿰亻童)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: 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
### 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 scripts05652 ||
| 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). ||
| | 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *doːŋ): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 童 (OC *doːŋ)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tóng (tong$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tung$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tóng
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tóng
*** Wade–Giles: tʻung$^2$
*** Yale: túng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torng
*** Palladius: тун (tun)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tung$^4$
*** Yale: tùhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tung$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tung$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰʊŋ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: duwng
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 |
| Baxter | duwng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /duŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /duŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /duŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dəwŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /duŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /duŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /dʱuŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tóng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | tung$^4$ |
* 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
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) boy
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) servant
* (historical) page; boy servant
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) ignorant
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 動 / 动 (dòng)
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 僮僮
* 僮僕 / 僮仆
* 僕僮成群 / 仆僮成群
* 僮婢
* 僮御
* 僮手指千
* 家僮 (jiātóng)
* 書僮 / 书僮
* 球僮
* 車僮 / 车僮

### Etymology 2

See 壯.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhuàng (zhuang$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄤˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zong$^6$ / zong$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhuàng
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄤˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhuàng
*** Wade–Giles: chuang$^4$
*** Yale: jwàng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juanq
*** Palladius: чжуан (čžuan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zong$^6$ / zong$^3$
*** Yale: johng / jong
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzong$^6$ / dzong$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zong$^6$ / zong$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /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. (This character 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
* child
    Synonym: 童
* fool, foolish
    Synonym: 愚
* servant
    Synonym: 妾

#### 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)、おろか (oroka, 僮か)

#### Compounds

* 僮(どう)児(じ) (dōji)
* 僮(どう)僕(ぼく) (dōboku)
* 家(か)僮(どう) (kadō)
* 侍(じ)僮(どう) (jidō)
* 僕(ぼく)僮(どう) (bokudō)

## Korean
### Hanja

僮 (eum 동 (dong))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

僮: Hán Nôm readings: đồng
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