童装 (tóng zhuāng) — children's clothing

Definition

noun

children's clothing

Measure word · 件

童装。
Wǒ xiǎng gěi hái zi mǎi jǐ jiàn tóng zhuāng.
I want to buy some children's clothing for my child.
童装。
Zhè jiā diàn de tóng zhuāng kuǎn shì hěn xīn cháo.
The children's clothing styles at this store are very trendy.
童装。
tóng zhuāng De miàn liào zuì hǎo xuǎn zé chún mián de.
It's best to choose pure cotton fabric for children's clothing.

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.

Child 童 clothing 装 gives wear for children.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 裝; 装 is its simplified writing.

壯衣裝

Meaning part形符xíngfú

衣衣yīclothes

Sound part声符shēngfú

壯

壯zhuàng裝zhuāng

Same sound today

The traditional form 裝 pairs 衣 (clothes) with 壯 as a sound part; this story is about 裝, not the simplified 装.