Hanja Analyzer
僮

僮 — dong

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
아이종 동
Romanization
dong
English
page, boy servant
Mandarin
tóng
Japanese on'yomi
ドウ, トウ, ズ
Japanese kun'yomi
しもべ わらべ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
14
Radical
人 (9, 12 residual)
Phonetic component
童
Unicode
U+50EE

Parts that make up 僮

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 童 아이 동sound 눈을 상하게 한 노예아이. ‘동·종’ 계열의 소리

How 僮 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 僮 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 童.

Characters sharing the phonetic 童

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “동”

Other hanja with radical 人

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