HSK 4 · Family

儿童 értóng “child” in Chinese

Traditional 兒童

What 儿童 means

  1. child

How to say 儿童

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale儿ér2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale童tóng2nd tone, rising

儿童 in a sentence

  1. 儿童免费入场。

    Értóng miǎnfèi rùchǎng.

    Children get in free.

    Sentence #784118 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 有时候成人表现得像儿童。

    Yǒushíhou chéngrén biǎoxiàn de xiàng értóng.

    Sometimes adults act like children.

    Sentence #5581726 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 儿童区在哪里？

    Értóng qū zài nǎlǐ?

    Where’s the children’s section?

    Sentence #13941582 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 儿童 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 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿érchild
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

The character 童 (tóng) with each of its parts in a different colour
童tóngchild
  • 立stand · lì
  • 里village · lǐ

How to write 儿童

儿 2 strokes · 童 12 strokes

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

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

Words related to 儿童

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here那儿nàr · there一点儿yìdiǎnr · a little面条儿miàntiáor · noodles好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly男孩儿nánháir · boy

Words with 童

童话tónghuà · fairy tale

More words: People, Body & Health

住院zhùyuàn · to be in hospital身高shēngāo · (a person’s) height出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital爱情àiqíng · romance房东fángdōng · landlord父亲fùqīn · father母亲mǔqīn · mother年龄niánlíng · (a person’s) age

FAQs

儿童 (értóng) means “child”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it értóng: ér with a 2nd tone, then tóng with a 2nd 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, 儿童 is written 兒童. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ertong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 儿童 from the suggestions. Typing ertong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
儿童 is an HSK 4 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.