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儿童

ér tóng 2–2

child

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
儿 · 童
Syllables
2
ér tóng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,692

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 儿ér2 strokesHSK 1 traditional 兒son, child; Kangxi radical 10
  • 童tóng12 strokesHSK 4child, boy, servant boy; virgin

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 儿童区在哪里？

    Ér tóng qū zài nǎ lǐ

    Where's the children's section?

  • 今天是六一儿童节。

    Jīn tiān shì Liù Yī Ér tóng jié

    Today is Children's day on 1st of June.

  • 这些是儿童的常见病。

    Zhè xiē shì ér tóng de cháng jiàn bìng

    These are common diseases of children.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 儿童. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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