童生

Chinese

		boy; child; children	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (童生)		童	生

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóngshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ sang¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tông-seng / tông-sng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóngshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóngsheng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²-shêng¹
    • Yale: túng-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngsheng
    • Palladius: туншэн (tunšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 同生 同聲／同声 桐生 童生 童聲／童声

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴ sang¹
    • Yale: tùhng sāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴ sang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴ seng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-seng
    • Tâi-lô: tông-sing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dongsefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³⁻²² siɪŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-sng
    • Tâi-lô: tông-sng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dongsngf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² sŋ̍³³/

Noun

童生

1. (historical) scholar without a xiucai (秀才) degree during the Ming and Qing Dynasty