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娘

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

mom

HSK 7 N2

Human →Relations →Family

niáng

ジョウ

むすめ、こ

낭

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound. Simplified form of 孃.

Components

女 woman+ 良 high-quality =

娘 mom

女 Meaning component

nǚ woman

woman, girl

良 Phonetic component

liáng high-quality

good, virtuous, respectable

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

娘

Regular

Modern

Chinese

娘 [niáng]

mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate

Japanese

娘むすめ、こ同音

noun

daughter
girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)

嬢、娘じょう同音

noun unmarried woman
n-suf Miss (after a name)
n-suf -ess; -ette (after a line of work)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (3)

彼女は娘の身支度を手伝った。

She aided her daughter in dressing.

私は若い娘の厚化粧は好まない。

I don't like heavy makeup on a young girl.

田中嬢は長年アメリカにいたので英語を話すのが非常にうまい。

Having been in America for many years, Miss Tanaka is a very good speaker of English.

CHINESE WORDS (73)

姑娘 [gūniang] #834

新娘 [xīnniáng] #2,638

老娘 [lǎoniáng] #10,863

伴娘 [bànniáng] #6,718

娘娘 [niángniang] #10,605

娘娘腔 [niángniangqiāng] #5,158

娘家 [niángjia] #15,835

married woman's parents' home

老板娘 [lǎobǎnniáng] #16,959

female proprietor

老板娘 [lǎobǎnniáng] #16,959

female proprietor

娘子 [niángzǐ] #22,442

(dialect) form of address for one's wife

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JAPANESE WORDS (67)

あの子 [あのこ] #1,356

小娘 [こむすめ] #4,878

娘さん [むすめさん] #5,168

⭐ 嬢 [じょう] #8,141

unmarried woman

⭐ 一人娘 [ひとりむすめ] #14,656

⭐ 孫娘 [まごむすめ] #14,953

愛娘 [まなむすめ] #22,557

(one's) beloved daughter

母娘 [おやこ] #27,318

mother and daughter

看板娘 [かんばんむすめ] #30,571

pretty girl who attracts customers to come inside a shop

男の娘 [おとこのこ] #32,460

young male with a feminine appearance (esp. one who crossdresses and has a feminine gender expression)

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KOREAN WORDS (1)