小女

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	female; woman; daughter
trad. (小女)		小	女
simp. ^#(小女)		小	女

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiǎonǚ

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄋㄩˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² neoi^5-2
Min Nan (POJ): siáu-lú / siáu-lí / sió-lí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎonǚ [Phonetic: xiáonǚ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄋㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siǎonyǔ
  - Wade–Giles: hsiao³-nü³
  - Yale: syǎu-nyǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheauneu
  - Palladius: сяонюй (sjaonjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: siu² neoi^5-2
  - Yale: síu néui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu² noey^5-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu² nêu^5-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ nɵy̯¹³⁻³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáu-lú
  - Tâi-lô: siáu-lú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siawluo
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ɕiau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lu⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou-like accent in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáu-lí
  - Tâi-lô: siáu-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siawlie
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-lí
  - Tâi-lô: sió-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioylie
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɕio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹/

Noun

小女

(humble, polite) my daughter
(literary) youngest daughter
(literary) young daughter
(archaic) Term of self-address for a daughter in front of her parents.

Synonyms

(youngest daughter):

Dialectal synonyms of 小女兒 (“youngest daughter”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		小女
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		小女兒, 幼女
Mandarin	Harbin	老丫兒, 小老丫兒, 小老丫
	Jinan	老生閨女
	Ürümqi	老閨女
	Wuhan	幺姑娘
	Chengdu	幺女兒, 幺女
	Guiyang	幺姑娘, 幺女
	Yangzhou	老姑娘
Cantonese	Guangzhou	孻女, 細女
	Hong Kong	孻女, 細女
	Dongguan	細女, 孻女
Gan	Pingxiang	滿女, 滿妹仔
Hakka	Meixian	滿妹
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	滿妹, 滿女
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	滿妹, 滿女
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	滿妹, 滿女
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	滿妹, 滿女
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	滿妹, 滿女
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	滿女
Huizhou	Jixi	細女
Min Nan	Shantou	尾走囝
Min Nan	Haikou	細查某囝, 孧查某囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	細女, 晚女
Wu	Ningbo	小囡

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