童工 (tóng gōng) — child laborer (a child who works); child labor…

Definition

noun

child laborer (a child who works)child labor (the practice of employing children)

Measure word · 个

童工。
Hěn duō guó jiā dōu jìn zhǐ shǐ yòng tóng gōng.
Many countries prohibit the use of child labor.
童工。
Zhè xiē tóng gōng měi tiān gōng zuò shí èr gè xiǎo shí.
These child laborers work twelve hours a day.
童工。
Zhèng fǔ zhèng zài nǔ lì xiāo chú tóng gōng xiàn xiàng.
The government is working hard to eliminate the phenomenon of child labor.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

童 (child) and 工 (worker) together mean a child who works.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

The form 童 comes from a pairing of 䇂 (a chisel) with 見 (a kneeling person with a huge eye), depicting a person having an eye gouged out.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

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