少女

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Chinese

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young; few; little
young; few; little; lack
 
female; woman; daughter
trad. (少女)
simp. #(少女)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/2
Initial () (26) (12)
Final () (91) (22)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter syewH nrjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiᴇuH/ /ɳɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiɛuH/ /ɳiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjæuH/ /niɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕiawH/ /ɳɨə̆X/
Li
Rong
/ɕiɛuH/ /niɔX/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭɛuH/ /nĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯ɛuH/ /ni̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
siu3 neoi5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shào
Middle
Chinese
‹ syewH › ‹ nrjoX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s-t]ewʔ-s/ /*nraʔ/
English young female

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/2
No. 13708 9616
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hmjews/ /*naʔ/

Noun

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少女

  1. young woman; girl
  2. (Classical) youngest daughter

Synonyms

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  • (young woman): 女郎 (nǚláng)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (少女):

Japanese

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Etymology 1

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Wikipedia ja
少女 (shōjo): a girl holding a puppy.
Kanji in this term
しょう
Grade: 2
じょ
Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese compound 少女 (MC syewX|syewH nrjoX|nrjoH). Compare modern Mandarin 少女 (shàonǚ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(しょう)(じょ) (shōjoせうぢよ (seudyo)?

  1. a (young, little) girl
  2. (anime, manga) a style of anime and manga made for young women, shojo
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
おと
Grade: 2

Grade: 1
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
乙女

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of (oto, young, little) +‎ (me, female, girl).[2][1] Compare (otoko, man), originally meaning "young boy".

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(おと)() (otome

  1. a young woman, adult but unmarried: a maiden
  2. a girl
  3. a female virgin
  4. (mythology) a celestial maiden, a fairy, a nymph
  5. (Shinto) a young woman dancer performing at the 五節 (Gosechi) ceremony in the eleventh lunar month
Derived terms
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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少女 (sonyeo) (hangeul 소녀)

  1. hanja form? of 소녀 (girl)

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

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少女

  1. chữ Hán form of thiếu nữ (young woman; girl).