Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedchild; young person; person below the age of adulthoodcurated
baby; infantcurated
youngwiktionary
childishwiktionary
inexperienced; untrained; unskillfulwiktionary
childish personwiktionary
child student; child attending an educational institutionwiktionary
subordinate; servant; attendantwiktionary
Less common senses (1)
person financially maintained by another as that person's sexual partner or illicit loverwiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesผมยังนึกถึงเด็กคนนั้น
I still think of that kid —
ตอนเด็ก ๆ ผมไม่เข้าใจว่าทำไมต้องทำ
As a child, I didn't understand why we had to do it.
เราไปโบสถ์ด้วยกันทุกอาทิตย์ตอนฉันยังเด็ก
We went to church together every Sunday when I was little.
แม่สอนฉันทำตั้งแต่เด็ก
Mom taught me how to make them since I was little.
เด็ก ๆ ลูกของแรงงานเรียนหนังสือที่นี่
The children of the workers go to school here.
Built from
From Proto-Tai *ɗekᴰ (“child (young person)”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨯᩮᩢ᩠ᨠ, Lao ເດັກ (dek), Saek แด๊ก, Zhuang daeg. Compare also Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bataq.