child

child prodigy

surname Tong

child

little girl

boy; male child

ball boy (tennis); caddie (golf)

urchin

(Daoism) a spirit medium, often a young person, believed to be possessed by a deity during rituals, acting as an intermediary for communication between the spirit world and humans

elf; leprechaun

catamite (boy as homosexual partner); kept man; gigolo

(market segment) maternity and early childhood

schoolchild

servant

young child

paperboy

a person studying for the imperial examinations

(often used in traditional novels) term used by an emperor to address the empress

kappa, a child-size humanoid water creature in Japanese folklore

shepherd boy

page boy; flower girl (at a wedding)

doorman; bell boy

(market segment) maternity and early childhood

children of migrant workers

child with special needs; gifted child

"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them

to recover one's youthful vigor; to feel rejuvenated (idiom)