童

Glyph origin
In oracle bone inscriptions,. It depicts a person getting their eye gouged out, a common punishment for slaves in ancient China. Compare,.

In bronze inscriptions, the phonetic component was added, making the character.

In the modern form has corrupted into. The bottom derives from  combining with, similar to.

Etymology

 * “child; servant boy; virgin; bare”
 * compares it to 🇨🇬 ; see also, Areng  .   also compares it to 🇨🇬: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.


 * “shaman”
 * proposed that the Min Chinese word for “shaman” (*-dəŋA), written as 童, is from an Austroasiatic substratum, cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, . This is rebutted in, who cited the wide distribution of the sense “magician; sorcerer” in late 19th-century & early 20th-century Chinese and the secondary meaning of 童 as “servant; messenger”, describing the resemblance between the Min and Austroasiatic terms as “undoubtedly fortuitous”.

Definitions

 * 1) child
 * 2) young servant; servant boy
 * 3)  shaman
 * 4) virgin
 * 5) bare; exposed
 * 6) 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness" (𝌑)
 * 1) young servant; servant boy
 * 2)  shaman
 * 3) virgin
 * 4) bare; exposed
 * 5) 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness" (𝌑)
 * 1) virgin
 * 2) bare; exposed
 * 3) 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness" (𝌑)
 * 1) 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness" (𝌑)
 * 1) 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness" (𝌑)
 * 1) 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness" (𝌑)

Kanji

 * 1) juvenile, child

Etymology
From.

Han character

 * 1)  of mediums or divination