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

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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    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

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