神童

Chinese

		God; unusual; mysterious God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being	boy; child; children
simp. and trad. (神童)		神	童

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shéntóng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san⁴ tung⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sîn-tông

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sing⁵ tong⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shéntóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shéntóng
    • Wade–Giles: shên²-tʻung²
    • Yale: shén-túng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sherntorng
    • Palladius: шэньтун (šɛnʹtun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən³⁵ tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: san⁴ tung⁴
    • Yale: sàhn tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san⁴ tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen⁴ tung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /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: sing⁵ tong⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sîng thông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tʰoŋ⁵⁵/

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• 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/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯ĕn/	/dʱuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shén	tóng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san4	tung4

Noun

神童

1. child prodigy

   • 孝綽字孝綽，本名冉。幼聰敏，七歲能屬文。舅齊中書郎王融深賞異之，與同載以適親友，號曰神童。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     孝绰字孝绰，本名冉。幼聪敏，七岁能属文。舅齐中书郎王融深赏异之，与同载以适亲友，号曰神童。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 659 CE, Li Dashi and Li Yanshou, History of the Southern Dynasties

     Xiàochuò zì Xiàochuò, běnmíng Rǎn. Yòu cōngmǐn, qī suì néng zhǔwén. Jiù qízhōngshūláng Wáng Róng shēn shǎngyì zhī, yǔ tóngzài yǐ shì qīnyǒu, hào yuē shéntóng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • ^金^時-習：字^悅-卿，号^梅月-堂。五歲能文，世稱神童。^世宗時隱而不仕，佯狂為僧，清風高節。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     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^[sic] (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^(key): [ɕĩndo̞ː]

Noun

神(しん)童(どう) • (shindō) 

1. child prodigy, wunderkind

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
神	童

Noun

神童 • (sindong) (hangeul 신동)

1. Hanja form^? of 신동 (“child prodigy”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
神	童

Noun

神童

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