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しょうじょ
Meanings
Noun
1. girl (usu. between 7 and 17); young lady
A girl was standing there.
2. female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryō period)
Alt. forms
少しょう女じょ
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小しょう女じょ
しょうじょ
Pitch accent
しょ
うじょ
Used in: 7
Composed of
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
woman; girl; Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); feminine noun
Used in vocabulary (15 in total)
magical girl (in anime, manga, etc.); girl with magical powers; young witch
beautiful girl
boys and girls
(school) girlish taste (for things that are sweet, cute, romantic, etc.); interest in young girls (rather than adult women)
bad girl; juvenile delinquent
runaway girl
novel for young girls
sporty girl; athletic girl
The Little Match Girl (1845 short story by Hans Christian Andersen)
female juvenile delinquent
Heidi (1881 novel by Johanna Spyri, 1974 anime)
virgin; maiden pure in heart
nymphophilia; sexual fixation on young girls; lolicon
1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen stationed in Okinawa
literary girl; book-loving girl; bookworm girl
Examples (200 in total)
A girl was standing there.
The girl trembled with fear.
The girl turned to look this way.
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