小子 xiǎo zi (coll.) boy / (derog.) joker / guy / (despicable) fellow syn 男孩 nán hái boy / CL:個|个[ge4] 男生 nán shēng schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male) 老弟 lǎo dì (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal syn 男孩子 nán hái zi boy 好家伙 hǎo jiā huo my God! / oh boy! / man! syn 牧羊人 mù yáng rén shepherd syn 童子 tóng zǐ boy syn 小儿 小兒 xiǎo r (coll.) early childhood / baby boy syn 牧羊 mù yáng to raise sheep / shepherd 男儿 男兒 nán ér a (real) man / boy / son syn 男童 nán tóng boy / male child syn 牛郎 niú láng cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute syn 通讯员 通訊員 tōng xùn yuán correspondent / reporter / messenger boy syn 牧人 mù rén shepherd / pastor / pastoral syn 黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn 牧歌 mù gē shepherd's song / pastoral 荠菜 薺菜 jì cài shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) 马前卒 馬前卒 mǎ qián zú lackey / errand boy / lit. runner before a carriage syn 小弟弟 xiǎo dì di little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis 小白脸 小白臉 xiǎo bái liǎn attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo 新丁 xīn dīng new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice 球童 qiú tóng ball boy (tennis) / caddie (golf) 小皇帝 xiǎo huáng dì child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child 幼齿 幼齒 yòu chǐ (Tw) naive and innocent (girl or boy) / underage prostitute (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [iù-khí]) 束发 束髮 shù fà to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair) 校草 xiào cǎo the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花[xiao4 hua1]) 耳鬓厮磨 耳鬢廝磨 ěr bìn sī mó lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood syn 桃太郎 táo tài láng Momotaro or Peach Boy, the hero of a Japanese folk tale / (Tw) Japanese person 花童 huā tóng page boy / flower girl (at a wedding) 僮 tóng servant boy 德牧 dé mù German shepherd 娈童 孌童 luán tóng catamite (boy as homosexual partner) / kept man / gigolo 黑背 hēi bèi German shepherd 牧犬 mù quǎn shepherd dog 门童 門童 mén tóng doorman / bell boy 半大小子 bàn dà xiǎo zǐ teenage boy / adolescent boy 牧羊者 mù yáng zhě shepherd 监牧 監牧 jiān mù shepherd / Tang dynasty official with responsibility for animal husbandry / pastor (cleric in charge of a Christian parish) 海洋守护协会 海洋守護協會 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 牵头人 牽頭人 shepherd 好牧人慈悲圣母会 好牧人慈悲聖母會 Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd 二毛子 èr máo zi lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat 僮仆 僮僕 tóng pú boy servant 正太 zhèng tài young, cute boy / derived from Japanese loanword shotacon 正太控[zheng4 tai4 kong4] 男孩乐队 男孩樂隊 nán hái yuè duì boy band (type of pop group) 童儿 童兒 tóng ér boy 聘娶婚 pìn qǔ hūn formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family) 阿兵哥 ā bīng gē (coll.) soldier boy 世界童子军总部 世界童子軍總部 Boy Scouts World Bureau 哈利・波特 hā lì · bō tè Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳 奶油小生 nǎi yóu xiǎo shēng handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy 仆欧 僕歐 pú ōu (old) waiter (loanword from "boy") / attendant 妈宝 媽寶 mā bǎo mama's boy 小寿星 小壽星 xiǎo shòu xīng child whose birthday is being celebrated / birthday boy / birthday girl 班草 bān cǎo the most handsome boy in the class 男娃 nán wá (dialect) boy / guy 小白 xiǎo bái (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy 哈利·波特 hā lì · bō tè Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳 小毛头 小毛頭 xiǎo máo tou (coll.) new-born baby / young boy 乖乖牌 guāi guāi pái good little boy (or girl) 酸儿辣女 酸兒辣女 suān ér là nǚ if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy / if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom) 小哥哥 xiǎo gē ge little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older 指腹为婚 指腹為婚 zhǐ fù wéi hūn to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom) 冠礼 冠禮 guàn lǐ the capping ceremony, a Confucian coming of age ceremony for males dating from pre-Qin times, performed when a boy reaches the age of 20, involving the ritual placing of caps on the head of the young man 弄璋 nòng zhāng (literary) to have a baby boy / to celebrate the birth of a son 朘 脧 zuī (literary) young boy’s penis 