GIRL  女孩子

FEMALE YOUNG HUMAN.
FEMALE CHILDDAUGHTERSCHOOLGIRLSCOTTISH LASSLASSIE.CHICKLADY
Antonym
  • BOYINTENSELY YOUNG MALE HUMAN.
    Hypernym
    • FEMALEGENDER OF AN ANIMAL OR ANIMAL TYPICALLY ABLE to BIRTH:bear CHILDREN.
      • GENDERFEATURE of being MALE OR FEMALE.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
          • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
    See also
    • BOYINTENSELY YOUNG MALE HUMAN.
      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 ／

      • 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

      女  nǚ OC: naʔ MC: ɳi̯ɤ 14 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPnonreferentialgirl
      • NPvocativegirl!
      子女  zǐ nǚ OC: sklɯʔ naʔ MC: tsɨ ɳi̯ɤ 4 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD

      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 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPyoung girl
      小女  xiǎo nǚ OC: smewʔ naʔ MC: siɛu ɳi̯ɤ 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPgirl
      女兒  nǚ ér OC: naʔ ŋje MC: ɳi̯ɤ ȵiɛ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPgirl
      處子  chù zǐ OC: qhljas sklɯʔ MC: tɕhi̯ɤ tsɨ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPunmarried girl; virgin

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