child

human between birth and puberty
Thing population_group Q7569
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Summary

child is a population group[1]. child draws 11,207 Wikipedia views per month (population group category, ranking #2 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: class of human[3]
  • Followed by: preadolescent[4]
  • Subclass of: juvenile[5], human[6]
  • Commons category: Children[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Children[8]
  • Commons gallery: Child[9]
  • Depicted by: Bambini tra gli alberi[10], Bimbo che scherza col gallo[11], Bimbo sdraiato che gioca con pietre[12], Child and goose Altemps[13], The Children of Charles III of Spain (series in the Palace of Capodimonte)[14], The Children of Charles III of Spain (series in the Royal Palace of Caserta)[15], The Children of Charles III of Spain (series in Museo Campano)[16], The Children of Charles III of Spain (series)[17], The Children of Charles III of Spain (series in the Prado Museum)[18], The Children of Emperor Francis II (series in the Royal Palace of Caserta)[19], Torso of a boy[20], Jupiter nursed by the she-goat Amalthea[21], The Conception and the Christian Children[22]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[23], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[24], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[26], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[27], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[28], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[29], Pax Leksikon[30]
  • Has characteristic: childhood[31]
  • Main Wikidata property: P40[32], P1971[33]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C16423[34]
  • Different from: child[35], Kind[36]
  • ACM Classification Code (2012): 10010931[37]
  • Female form of label: niña[38]
  • Hashtag: children[39]
  • Produced by: Homo sapiens[40]

Body

Influence

Things named for child include kappa[41], a fictional taxon[42]; Childism[43], a social movement[44]; International Missing Children's Day[45], a world day[46]; infantophilia[47], a sexual preference[48]; and Dětský Island[49], a river island[50], in Czech Republic[51].

Why It Matters

child has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] child is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]

Entities named for child include kappa[41], a fictional taxon[42]; Childism[43], a social movement[44]; International Missing Children's Day[45], a world day[46]; infantophilia[47], a sexual preference[48]; and Dětský Island[49], a river island[50], in Czech Republic[51].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . twitter.com. Retrieved . twitter.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 235
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'atj', 'av', 'awa', '
    Homosaurus id (v4) → homoit0000255
    Verbaalpina id → C7146
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Homosaurus id (v4): homoit0000255, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/227273037|Children (#227273037)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7301|Homosaurus ID (V"
  2. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Ökologische Betroffenheit
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q294995, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 11w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 4326
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 4326, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167476964|THE CHILD (#167476964)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]]"
  4. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → children, child
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: child, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923121|child (#289923121)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  5. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → children, child
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: children, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923167|children (#289923167)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  6. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007264-deti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007264-deti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  7. 21w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → juvenile, human
    Has characteristic → childhood
    Produced by → Homo sapiens
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +5
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||tok, jbo */ import labels from sitelinks"
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