The kanji 童: meaning, readings and stroke order
童
- Meaning
- child
- On reading
- ドウ dou
- Kun reading
- わらべ warabe
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 立 stand, erect
- Level
- Level 3 · grade 3
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- trẻ em (đồng)
- Japanese
- こども。
- Korean
- 아이 (동)
- Chinese
- 儿童
Readings, words and example sentences
ドウ dou · on reading
童話
children's story, fairy tale
妹に 童話を 読んで あげます。
I read a fairy tale to my little sister.
わらべ warabe · kun reading · less common
童うた
children's folk song
むかしの 童うたを 歌います。
We sing an old children's song.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.