童星 (tóng xīng) — child star | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

child star

Measure word · 位

童星，。
Tā xiǎo shí hou jiù shì tóng xīng, xiàn zài chéng le dà míng xīng.
She was a child star when she was little, and now she's become a big celebrity.
童星。
Hěn duō tóng xīng zhǎng dà hòu hěn nán jì xù zǒu hóng.
Many child stars find it hard to stay popular after they grow up.
童星。
Zhè bù diàn yǐng qǐng le yí wèi tóng xīng lái yǎn zhǔ jué.
This movie hired a child star to play the lead role.

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 星 (star) together mean a famous child.

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.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

The top of 星 is a later simplified form of 晶, twinkling stars; the bottom 生 shows the sound.

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