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孃
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇰🇷
嬢
🇯🇵

mom

HSK 10 N1
Human →Relations →Family
ジョウ
むすめ
양
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 襄 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (孃)
女 woman+ 襄 aid =
孃 mom
女 Meaning component
nǚ woman
woman, girl
襄 Phonetic component
xiāng aid
aid, help, assist
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Japanese (嬢)
女 woman+ 㐮 to help =
嬢 mom
女
女
woman
㐮
㐮
to help
Notes
Similar Characters
佞 glib囡 one's daughter奶 milk奸 crafty她 she奼 colorful (trad)好 good妁 act as go-between妄 absurd妆 adorn (simp)妈 mama (simp)妊 conceive妍 seductive妒 jealous of妓 prostitute妖 bewitching妗 wife of mother's brother妙 wonderful妝 put on makeup (trad)妞 girl
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
孃
Regular
Modern
Japanese
嬢 、 娘 じょう 同音
  1. noun unmarried woman
  2. n-suf Miss (after a name)
  3. n-suf -ess; -ette (after a line of work)
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
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.
Japanese Names
嬢 おとめ
Otome female given name
嬢 じょう
Jō female given name
孃 じょう
Jō female given name
CHINESE WORDS (3)
红色娘子军 [hóng​sè​niáng​zi​jūn] #43,007
Red Detachment of Women
纺织娘 [fǎng​zhī​niáng] #68,056
katydid
舞娘 [wǔ​niáng]
female dancer
JAPANESE WORDS (32)
お嬢様 [おじょうさま] #3,197
(another's) daughter
⭐ お嬢さん [おじょうさん] #3,665
(another's) daughter
⭐ 令嬢 [れいじょう] #8,127
(your) daughter
⭐ 嬢 [じょう] #8,141
unmarried woman
お嬢 [おじょう] #8,234
(another's) daughter
嬢ちゃん [じょうちゃん] #10,080
young girl
御令嬢 [ごれいじょう] #11,180
your daughter
受付嬢 [うけつけじょう] #17,308
receptionist
深窓の令嬢 [しんそうのれいじょう] #43,221
closeted maiden
キャバ嬢 [キャバじょう] #49,337
hostess (in a hostess bar)
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