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童年

tóng nián

2-character word

What 童年 means

1. childhood

The characters in 童年

• 童tóngchild
• 年niányear

Example sentences

• 我的童年很快乐。
  I had a happy childhood.
• 我很怀念我的童年。
  Wǒ hěn huáiniàn wǒ de tóngnián.
  I think fondly of my childhood.
• 你童年的梦想是什么？
  What was your childhood dream?
• 他童年时去过巴黎三次。
  Tā tóngnián shí qù guo Bālí sāncì.
  As a child, he went to Paris three times.
• 童年时我会去海里游泳。
  I used to go swimming in the sea when I was a child.
• 那首歌总是让我忆起童年。
  That song always reminds me of my childhood.

Sounds the same

Read tóng nián, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 同年in the same year; to be the same age