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少女 (しょうじょ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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本ほん
を
読よ
ん
で
いる
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That girl reads a book in the park every day.
The young girls are playing happily.
Usage patterns 〈 数かず 〉 人にん の 少しょう 女じょ ... girls (counting people)
There were three girls in the park.
少しょう 女じょ 向む けの 〈 物もの 〉 (something) aimed at young girls
This is a manga aimed at young girls.
少しょう 女じょ のような 〈 事こと 〉 as innocent/childlike as a young girl
She showed a smile as innocent as a young girl's.
Related words· 10 女の子 is the casual, everyday word for a young girl, while 少女 sounds slightly more formal or literary.
乙女 is a poetic, old-fashioned word evoking innocence or maidenhood, whereas 少女 is the plain, neutral term for a young girl.
娘 usually means one's own daughter or a young unmarried woman in a family context, while 少女 refers neutrally to any young girl.
女性 is the general word for a woman of any age, while 少女 specifically means a young girl.
Show 6 more 少女 is the modern, common word for a young girl, whereas 子女 in this sense is a dated, literary usage that has largely fallen out of everyday speech.
女児 is a formal, often written term for a young girl up to elementary-school age, while 少女 is broader and more common, covering older girls and teenagers too.
少女 is a formal or literary word for a young girl used in writing and news, whereas ガール is a casual, trendy loanword often seen in compound terms.
Opposites 少年 refers to a boy of similar age, the direct male counterpart to 少女.
老女 refers to an elderly woman, while 少女 refers to a young girl, making them opposites in age.
Written forms 少しょう 女じょ Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
小しょう 女じょ
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form.
Etymology Composed of 少 (shō, 'few, little, young') and 女 (jo, 'woman, female'). The reading is on'yomi. The archaic ritsuryō sense reflects an older legal definition.
女じょ
少女 refers to a girl from roughly elementary school age through her teens, whereas 幼女 refers to a much younger child, from toddler to early elementary age.
少女 is the ordinary modern word for a young girl, whereas 早乙女 is old-fashioned, literary, and tied to rice-planting imagery.
少女 is a more literary or formal term for 'young girl', while 嬢ちゃん is a casual, affectionate way of referring to or addressing one.
家いえ 出で 少しょう 女じょ
novel for young girls; girls' fiction
Show 6 more girlish taste; fondness for cute/romantic things · interest in young girls; attraction to young girls
boys and girls
literary girl; book-loving girl; bookworm girl
virgin; maiden pure in heart
female juvenile delinquent
magical girl; girl with magical powers; young witch
