GIRL    女孩子

FEMALE YOUNG HUMAN.
FEMALE CHILDDAUGHTERSCHOOLGIRLSCOTTISH LASSLASSIE.CHICKLADY
Old Chinese Criteria
NB: The distinction between "girl" and "daughter" is very often unclear. 1. A current general word for a girl is rú zǐ 孺子, and in the plural nu � mèi 女妹. 2. Zǐ nu �子女 refers to post-puberty girls often used as gifts or as bribes. 3. Nu �女 can refer to a girl.
Modern Chinese Criteria
女孩子 姑娘 女 女兒 丫頭 閨女 妞兒 妮子 女孩 小女孩兒 妞 妞妞 妮子 妮兒 小囡 囡 丫頭 小丫頭 黃毛丫頭 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • BOYINTENSELY YOUNG MALE HUMAN.
See also
  • BOYINTENSELY YOUNG MALE HUMAN.
Hypernym
  • FEMALE　GENDER OF AN ANIMAL OR ANIMAL TYPICALLY ABLE to BIRTH:bear CHILDREN. (anc: 6/0, child: 3)
  • ANIMAL　CREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE. (anc: 5/0, child: 12)
  • CREATURE　LIVING THING. (anc: 4/0, child: 3)
Other Hypernyms
  • FEMALEnew-d5fbd529-ccd8-4b35-bbd5-29ccd80b350b　GENDER OF AN ANIMAL OR ANIMAL TYPICALLY ABLE to BIRTH:bear CHILDREN. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
  • GENDER　FEATURE of being MALE OR FEMALE. (anc: 4/0, child: 2)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 2.26

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    GIRL

    virgo is an unmarried woman, whether young or old.

    puella is a young woman, whether married or not.

    virago is a virile, strong, heroic young woman.

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.348

    • Words (9 items)

    女  nǚ OC: naʔ MC: ɳi̯ɤ 14 Attributions

    Nu� 女 can refer to a girl.

      Word relations
    • Ant: 子/BOY Zǐ 子 refers generally to children, but it is often hard to distinguish the meaning from that of boy, when the reference obviously is to males. See CHILD.

      Syntactic words
    • nadNthe girl's NDS
    • nccgirl (On analogy with 男 one might be tempted to take this to be a case of n[adN], i.e. short for 女人. But this seems curiously unnatural.)待考
    孺子  rú zǐ OC: njos sklɯʔ MC: ȵi̯o tsɨ 7 Attributions

    A current general word for a girl is rú zǐ 孺子, and in the plural nǚ mèi 女妹.

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 夫人/WIFE fū rén 夫人 is said to refer specifically to the wife of a feudal lord LIJI 2.2.16), but is often used more widely.

      Syntactic words
    • NPfemale?young lady, young girl
    女子  nǚ zǐ OC: naʔ sklɯʔ MC: ɳi̯ɤ tsɨ 5 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentialgirl
    • NPvocativegirl!
    子女  zǐ nǚ OC: sklɯʔ naʔ MC: tsɨ ɳi̯ɤ 4 Attributions

    Zǐ nǚ 子女 refers to post-puberty girls often used as gifts or as bribes.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 狗/DOG Gǒu 狗is a colloquial word for a dog (according to some early commentators a small dog, and it is plausible that the colloquial word may have referred to the small dog in particular).
    • Assoc: 馬/HORSE The dominant word for a horse is mǎ 馬.

      Syntactic words
    • NPplural(attractive) young girls (as gift or bribe)
    女妹  nǚ mèi OC: naʔ mɯɯds MC: ɳi̯ɤ muo̝i 2 Attributions

    A current general word for a girl is rú zǐ 孺子, and in the plural nǚ mèi 女妹.

      Syntactic words
    • NPnonreferentialyoung girls; attractive young court ladies
    童女  tóng nǚ OC: dooŋ naʔ MC: duŋ ɳi̯ɤ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPyoung girl
    小女  xiǎo nǚ OC: smewʔ naʔ MC: siɛu ɳi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPgirl
    處子  chù zǐ OC: qhljas sklɯʔ MC: tɕhi̯ɤ tsɨ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPunmarried girl; virgin
    女兒  nǚ ér OC: naʔ ŋje MC: ɳi̯ɤ ȵiɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPgirl