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Kanji Detail for 娘 - "daughter, girl, own child"

  • Meaning

    娘 means "daughter, girl, own child."

    1. Daughter - A child; a young woman; an unmarried woman.

    2. One's daughter - A female child of one's own.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    daughter; girl

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    mother; young girl; woman; wife

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    mother; young girl; woman; wife

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A term for young women. Such as 娘子, 姑娘. | Calling one's mother 娘. Originally written as 孃. | An honorific for women. Eunuchs and palace maids called the empress 娘娘. Colloquially, women are also generally called 大娘.
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Sentences including

  • The girl in a blue coat is my daughter.

  • My daughter is the apple of my eye.

  • I treated her as my own daughter.

  • She was a young girl about your age.

  • Truth is time's daughter.

  • He was making sheep's eyes at my daughter.

  • They have two sons and one daughter.

  • This is my daughter.

  • He was impatient to see his daughter.

  • He has married his daughter to a young lawyer.

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