Chinese edit

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

Pronunciation edit



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 edit

少女

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

Synonyms edit

  • (young woman): 女郎 (nǚláng)

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (少女):

Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

 
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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 edit

Noun edit

(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 edit
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
おと
Grade: 2

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

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

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(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 edit
See also edit

References edit

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

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

少女 (sonyeo) (hangeul 소녀)

  1. Hanja form? of 소녀 (girl).

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun edit

少女

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