HSK 6 · Media

童话 tónghuà “fairy tale” in Chinese

Traditional 童話

What 童话 means

  1. fairy tale
  2. children’s fairy tales

How to say 童话

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale童tóng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale话huà4th tone, falling

童话 in a sentence

  1. 神仙只在童话里存在。

    Shénxiān zhǐ zài tónghuà lǐ cúnzài.

    Immortals only exist in fairy tales.

    Sentence #8905179 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她喜欢童话故事。

    Tā xǐhuan tónghuà gùshi.

    She likes fairy tales.

    Sentence #8916050 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 作者将童话翻译成了我们的母语。

    Zuòzhě jiāng tónghuà fānyì chéng le wǒmen de mǔyǔ.

    The author translated the fairy tale into our native language.

    Sentence #7753614 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 童话 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 童 (tóng) with each of its parts in a different colour
童tóngchild
  • 立stand · lì
  • 里village · lǐ
The character 话 (huà) with each of its parts in a different colour
话huàdialect
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yán
  • 舌tongue · shé

Memory aidSpeech 讠 from the tongue 舌: talk, words.

How to write 童话

童 12 strokes · 话 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

童话 (tónghuà) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 童话 (tónghuà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 童话

Words with 童

儿童értóng · child

Words with 话

电话diànhuà · telephone打电话dǎ diànhuà · to make a phone call说话shuōhuà · to speak的话dehuà · if (ends a conditional clause)对话duìhuà · dialogue笑话xiàohua · joke普通话pǔtōnghuà · Mandarin废话fèihuà · nonsense实话shíhuà · truth神话shénhuà · legend

More words: Media & Arts

书法shūfǎ · calligraphy书籍shūjí · books题材tícái · subject matter体裁tǐcái · genre通讯tōngxùn · communication图案tú'àn · pattern问世wènshì · to be published文物wénwù · cultural relic

FAQs

童话 (tónghuà) means “fairy tale” or “children’s fairy tales”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tónghuà: tóng with a 2nd tone, then huà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 童话 is written 童話. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tonghua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 童话 from the suggestions. Typing tonghua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
童话 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.