流浪儿

street urchin / waif

variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc

child / son

non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final

to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade

wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble

to drift about / to wander / to roam / nomadic / homeless / unsettled (e.g. population) / vagrant