GIRL 女孩子
FEMALE YOUNG HUMAN.
Old Chinese Criteria
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
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
Attributions by syntactic funtion
Attributions by text
- 韓非子 : 9
- 搜神記 : 6
- 禮記 : 6
- 春秋左傳 : 3
- 賢愚經 : 2
- 呂氏春秋 : 1
- 管子 : 1
- 莊子 : 1
- 毛詩 : 1
- 戰國策 : 1
- 荀子 : 1
- 黃帝內經 : 1
- 史記 : 1
- 妙法蓮華經 : 1
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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