儿童 értóng child
child; children
怎么记住“儿童”: 儿 son + 童 child = child.
汉字
用法
- Children as a category/demographic - 儿童节 (értóng jié) Children's Day, 儿童读物 children's books.
- More formal and collective than 孩子 (háizi), the everyday word for 'kid(s)'; 儿童 appears on signs, tickets, and official contexts.
- You'd say 我的孩子 (my child) not 我的儿童; 儿童 is the abstract class 'children', e.g. on a ticket price.
例句
- 儿童免费入场。 Értóng miǎnfèirùchǎng.Admission is free for children.
- 那里是儿童乐园。 Nàli shì értóng lèyuán.That's a playground over there.
- 有时候成人表现得像儿童。 Yǒushíhòu chéngrén biǎoxiàn de xiàng értóng.Sometimes adults behave like children.