少奶奶

Chinese

		young; few; little young; few; little; lack	paternal grandmother; gramma; granny
trad. (少奶奶)		少	奶奶
simp. #(少奶奶)		少	奶奶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shàonǎinai

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ ㄋㄞˇ ˙ㄋㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu³ naai^5-1 naai^5-1
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siáu-nái-nái

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shàonǎinai
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˋ ㄋㄞˇ ˙ㄋㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shàonǎinåi
    • Wade–Giles: shao⁴-nai³-nai⁵
    • Yale: shàu-nǎi-nai
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shawnae.nai
    • Palladius: шаонайнай (šaonajnaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ naɪ̯²¹⁴ naɪ̯⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu³ naai^5-1 naai^5-1
    • Yale: siu nāai nāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu³ naai^5-1 naai^5-1
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu³ nai^5-1 nai^5-1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³³ naːi̯¹³⁻⁵⁵ naːi̯¹³⁻⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáu-nái-nái
    • Tâi-lô: siáu-nái-nái
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siawnaynae
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ nãi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ nãi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ nãi⁴¹/

Noun

少奶奶

1. young mistress of the house; wife of the young master

   • 土豪劣紳的小姐少奶奶的牙床上，也可以踏上去滾一滾。 [MSC, trad.]
     土豪劣绅的小姐少奶奶的牙床上，也可以踏上去滚一滚。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Tǔháo lièshēn de xiǎojiě shàonǎinai de yáchuáng shàng, yě kěyǐ tà shàngqù gǔn yi gǔn. [Pinyin]

     They even loll for a minute or two on the ivory-inlaid beds belonging to the young ladies in the households of the local tyrants and evil gentry.

2. (archaic, honorific) (somebody's, your) daughter-in-law