少女

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/
Bernhard
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 		/*[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 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: 少(しょう)女(じょ) (shōjo)
  • → Korean: 소녀(少女) (sonyeo)
  • → Vietnamese: thiếu nữ (少女)

Japanese

Etymology 1

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

  • (Tokyo) しょーじょ [shóꜜòjò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɕo̞ːʑo̞]

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
  • 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
See also
See also

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”).[2][1] 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
  • 少女(おとめ)さび (otomesabi): behavior appropriate to an adult unmarried woman
  • 少女(おとめ)の頭(かしら) (otome no kashira): alternate term for 萱藻海苔, カヤモノリ (kayamonori), a type of sea vegetable in order Ectocarpales (syn. 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
See also

References

  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

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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