# 神童
## Chinese

* 神童

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shéntóng
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄥˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): san$^4$ tung$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sîn-tông
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sing$^5$ tong$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shéntóng
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shéntóng
*** Wade–Giles: shên$^2$-tʻung$^2$
*** Yale: shén-túng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sherntorng
*** Palladius: шэньтун (šɛnʹtun)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂən³⁵ tʰʊŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: san$^4$ tung$^4$
*** Yale: sàhn tùhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: san$^4$ tung$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sen$^4$ tung$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐn²¹ tʰʊŋ²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîn-tông
*** Tâi-lô: sîn-tông
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sindoong
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sin²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sin²⁴⁻²² tɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin¹³⁻²² tɔŋ¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /sin²⁴⁻¹¹ tɔŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²³⁻³³ tɔŋ²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: sing$^5$ tong$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sîng thông
*** Sinological IPA : /siŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tʰoŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: zyin duwng
Rime :
| Character | 神 | 童 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 船 (27) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) | 東 (1) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 食鄰切 | 徒紅切 |
| Baxter | zyin | duwng |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʑiɪn/ | /duŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʑin/ | /duŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʑjen/ | /duŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʑin/ | /dəwŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡ʑiĕn/ | /duŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡ʑĭĕn/ | /duŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /d͡ʑʰi̯ĕn/ | /dʱuŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shén | tóng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | san$^4$ | tung$^4$ |

### Noun

神童
* child prodigy
    From: 659 CE, Li Dashi and Li Yanshou, History of the Southern Dynasties
    (Xiàochuò) yòu cōngmǐn, qī suì néng zhǔwén. Jiù Qí zhōngshūláng Wáng Róng shēn shǎngyì zhī, yǔ tóngzài yǐ shì qīnyǒu, hào yuē shéntóng. [Pinyin]
    Liu Xiaochuo was smart from an early age. He could write essays by the age of seven. His uncle Wang Rong, a Qi-dynasty scholar official, greatly appreciated him and took him in his carriage to visit relatives and friends, boasting that he was a child prodigy.
    From: c. 1790, 《樂學拾零》
    Kim Siseup: ja Yeolgyeong, ho Maewoldang. O se neung mun, seching sindong. Sejong si eun i bulsa, yang gwang wi seung, cheongpung gojeol. [Sino-Korean]
    Kim Siseup, courtesy name Yeolgyeong, art name Maewoldang. At the age of five, he could [already] write well, and he was commonly known as a child prodigy. At the time of Sejong (n.b. Sejo is intended), he concealed himself and did not take an official post, feigning madness and becoming a Buddhist monk. [He was of] honest character and high integrity.

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 神 | 童 |
| しん Grade: 3 | どう Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi ||
* Alternative spelling
* 神童 (kyūjitai)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) しんどー [shìńdóó] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ɕĩndo̞ː]

### Noun

神(しん)童(どう) • (shindō)
* child prodigy, wunderkind

### References

* 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 神 | 童 |

### Noun

神童 • (sindong) (hangeul 신동)
* hanja form of 신동 (“child prodigy”)

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 神 | 童 |

### Noun

神童
* chữ Hán form of thần đồng (“child prodigy”).