Meaning & readings
newborn babe, child, young of animals
Origin
The character 児 combines two elements to represent a child. The bottom component 儿, which looks like legs, is a classifier used in Chinese characters for anything related to people or human forms. The top part suggests a small or young person. Together, these elements visually and conceptually build the idea of a young human—someone small and developing, with the leg component emphasizing the physical form of a child. This compound-ideographic approach lets the character's shape itself convey the meaning of youth and immaturity.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 旧
- 儿
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 10
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #679 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05150