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Etymology 1
From Sinitic 少女.
Pronunciation
Noun
少女 (hiragana しょうじょ, romaji shōjo, historical hiragana せうぢょ)
- a (young, little) girl
- (anime, manga) a style of anime and manga made for young women, shojo
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 少女歌劇 (しょうじょかげき, shōjo kageki): a kind of traditional Japanese light drama with no male actors and mostly young girls playing the parts
- 少女趣味 (しょうじょしゅみ, shōjo shumi): hobbies or interests common to young girls
- 少女時代 (しょうじょじだい, shōjo jidai): girlhood, one's girlhood
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Etymology 2
From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 乙 (oto, “young, little”) + 女 (me, “female, girl”). Compare 男 (otoko, “man”), originally meaning "young boy".
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
少女 (hiragana おとめ, romaji otome)
- a young woman, adult but unmarried: a maiden
- a girl
- (mythology) a celestial maiden, a fairy, a nymph
- (Shintō) a young woman dancer performing at the 五節 (Gosechi) ceremony in the eleventh lunar month
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 少女さび (おとめさび, otomesabi): behavior appropriate to an adult unmarried woman
- 少女の頭 (おとめのかしら, otome no kashira): alternate term for 萱藻海苔, カヤモノリ (kayamo nori), a type of sea vegetable in order Scytosiphonales, of class Phaeophyceae (brown algae), used to make nori
- 少女子 (おとめこ, otomeko): an unmarried young woman; a girl or young woman who dances kagura at a shrine; a miko
- 少女心 (おとめごころ, otomegokoro): a girl's innocence, a girl's sensitive nature
- 少女文楽 (おとめぶんらく, otome bunraku): a kind of one-person puppet show performed by girls or young women
- 少女巫 (おとめみこ, otome miko): a female miko
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Proper noun
少女 (hiragana おとめ, romaji Otome)
- the title of the twenty-first chapter in The Tale of Genji: "The Maiden"
