童心

Chinese

		boy; child; children	heart; mind
simp. and trad. (童心)		童	心

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tóngxīn

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ sam¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tông-sim

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tóngxīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tóngsin
  - Wade–Giles: tʻung²-hsin¹
  - Yale: túng-syīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngshin
  - Palladius: тунсинь (tunsinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    同心
    童心
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tung⁴ sam¹
  - Yale: tùhng sām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴ sam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴ sem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹ sɐm⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    同心
    童心
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-sim
  - Tâi-lô: tông-sim
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dongsym
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² sim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² sim³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³⁻²² sim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ sim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²³⁻³³ sim⁴⁴/

Noun

童心

childlike innocence; childish heart; child-like inner self

Derived terms

童心未泯 (tóngxīnwèimǐn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
童	心
どう Grade: 3	しん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) どーしん [dòóshíń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [do̞ːɕĩɴ]

Noun

童(どう)心(しん) • (dōshin)

a child's mind, childlike innocence

References

^ 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