童
/tʰʊŋ³⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•child · young servant; servant boy · shaman
Etimoloji
In oracle bone inscriptions, ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 䇂 (“chisel”) + 見 (“kneeling person with a huge eye”). It depicts a person getting their eye (目) gouged out, a common punishment for slaves in ancient China. Compare 民, 臧. In bronze inscriptions, the phonetic component 東 (OC *toːŋ) was added, making the character phono-semantic (形聲 /形声). In the modern form 䇂 has corrupted into 立. The…