少女

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Chinese

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 少 女
Reading # 2/2 1/2
Initial (聲) 書 (26) 娘 (12)
Final (韻) 宵 (91) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 失照切 尼吕切
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 nǚ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		siu3 neoi5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 少 女
Reading # 2/2 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shào nǚ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ syewH › ‹ nrjoX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*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. * 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 少 女
Reading # 2/2 1/2
No. 13708 9616
Phonetic
component 		小 女
Rime
group 		宵 魚
Rime
subdivision 		2 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		少
Old
Chinese 		/*hmjews/ /*naʔ/

Noun

少女

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

Synonyms

  • (young woman): 女郎 (nǚláng)

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (少女):

Japanese

Etymology 1

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Wikipedia ja
少女 (shōjo): a girl holding a puppy.
Kanji in this term
少 女
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

Noun

少(しょう)女(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
Derived terms
See also
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Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
少 女
おと
Grade: 2 		め
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
乙女

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 乙 (oto, “young, little”) +‎ 女 (me, “female, girl”). Compare 男 (otoko, “man”), originally meaning "young boy".

Pronunciation

Noun

少(おと)女(め) • (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
Derived terms
See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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

Hanja in this term
少女

Noun

少女 • (sonyeo) (hangeul 소녀)

  1. Hanja form? of 소녀 (“girl”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
少女

Noun

少女

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