女大十八变 女大十八變 nǚ dà shí bā biàn lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was 丫头片子 丫頭片子 yā tou piàn zi (coll.) silly girl / little girl 小妹妹 xiǎo mèi mei little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva 小姐姐 xiǎo jiě jie little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older) 挼 ruá (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled / crumpled / (dialect) (of clothes) worn out / (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak / feeble / (dialect) (of skill) poor / inferior 柴禾妞 chái hé niū (dialect) country girl / unsophisticated girl 溜 liù swift current / rapids / (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled / proficient / (of movements) quick / speedy / (bound form) rain runoff from a roof / (bound form) roof gutter / classifier for rows, lines etc / surroundings / neighborhood / (dialect) to practice / (dialect) to plaster / to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc) syn 丫头 丫頭 yā tou girl / servant girl / (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) syn 绿茶 綠茶 lǜ chá green tea / (slang) (of a girl) seemingly innocent and charming but actually calculating and manipulative / a girl who has these qualities 婢女 bì nǚ slave girl / servant girl syn 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman 赛车女郎 賽車女郎 sài chē nǚ láng pit babe / paddock girl / grid girl 把妹 bǎ mèi to pick up a girl / to get a girl 世界女童子军协会 世界女童子軍協會 World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts 世界女童子军协会世界会议 世界女童子軍協會世界會議 World Conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts 把马子 把馬子 bǎ mǎ zǐ to pick up a girl / to get a girl 小鬟 xiǎo huán (historical) chignon worn by a young girl / slave girl (prepubescent household courtesan wearing a distinctive paired chignon hairstyle) 把马子 把馬子 bǎ mǎ zi to pick up a girl / to get a girl 乖乖女 guāi guāi nǚ well-behaved girl / good girl 小妹 xiǎo mèi little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc) 小公主 xiǎo gōng zhǔ lit. little princess / fig. spoiled girl / female version of 小皇帝[xiao3 huang2 di4] 妞妞 niū niu little girl 黄毛丫头 黃毛丫頭 huáng máo yā tou silly little girl syn 稚女 zhì nǚ little girl (of toddler age) 阿囡 ā nān honey (endearment in addressing a little girl) syn 乖乖牌 guāi guāi pái good little boy (or girl) 缓缓 緩緩 huǎn huǎn slowly / unhurriedly / little by little syn 小弟 xiǎo dì little brother / I, your little brother (humble) syn 小弟弟 xiǎo dì di little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis 节节 節節 jié jié step by step / little by little syn 细水长流 細水長流 xì shuǐ cháng liú lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little syn 逐次 zhú cì gradually / one after another / little by little 积少成多 積少成多 jī shǎo chéng duō (idiom) many little things add up to sth great / many little drops make an ocean syn 一来二去 一來二去 yī lái èr qù gradually / little by little / in the course of time syn 一点一点 一點一點 yī diǎn yī diǎn little by little / bit by bit / gradually 雷大雨小 léi dà yǔ xiǎo lit. much thunder but little rain / fig. a lot of talk but little action / his bark is worse than his bite 小哥哥 xiǎo gē ge little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older 积少成多 積少成多 jī shǎo - chéng duō (idiom) many little things add up to sth great / many little drops make an ocean syn 靓女 靚女 liàng nǚ (dialect) pretty girl syn 妹子 mèi zi (dialect) younger sister / girl syn 女娃 nǚ wá (dialect) girl 嫚 mān (dialect) girl 嫚子 mān zi (dialect) girl 尕 gǎ little (dialect) 马骝 馬騮 mǎ liú monkey (dialect) / little monkey (affectionate term for children, subordinates) 熊孩子 xióng hái zi (dialect) little devil / brat 咱们 咱們 zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] syn 风光 風光 fēng guāng scene / view / sight / landscape / to be well-regarded / to be well-off / grand (dialect) / impressive (dialect) syn 黄牛 黃牛 huáng niú ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise syn 大 dà big / large / great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3]) / greatly / freely / fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) syn 拿捏 ná niē (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten 着 著 zhāo a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick / tactic / (dialect) okay / all right / (dialect) to put in / to add syn 种花 種花 zhòng huā to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton syn 咧咧 liē liē (dialect) to cry / to whimper / (dialect) to talk drivel 兴 興 xīng to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect) syn 砻 礱 lóng (dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool syn 㞎 bǎ (dialect) poo / (dialect) to shit 启海话 啟海話 qǐ hǎi huà Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai 媳妇 媳婦 xí fu (dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman syn 拧巴 擰巴 nǐng ba (dialect) awkward / uncomfortable / (dialect) obstinate / contrary / argumentative 磕碜 磕磣 kē chen (dialect) ugly / unsightly / shabby / (dialect) to humiliate / to ridicule 馃子 餜子 guǒ zi (dialect) pastry / (dialect) youtiao / deep-fried cruller 齁甜 hōu tián (dialect) (of food) excessively sweet / cloying / (dialect) (of words, affection etc) sickenly sweet / overly sentimental 巴适 巴適 bā shì (Sichuan dialect) comfortable / suitable / excellent / really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb) / to curry favor with 女孩 nǚ hái girl / lass 女生 nǚ shēng schoolgirl / female student / girl 少女 shào nǚ girl / young lady syn 温柔 溫柔 wēn róu gentle and soft / tender / sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) syn 姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 女孩子 nǚ hái zi girl syn 出台 出臺 chū tái to officially launch (a policy, program etc) / to appear on stage / to appear publicly / (of a bar girl) to leave with a client syn 那个人 那個人 nà gè rén lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 大姐 dà jiě big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) syn 辣妹 là mèi hot chick / sexy girl / abbr. LM 秋水 qiū shuǐ limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes) syn 上头 上頭 shàng tóu (of alcohol, love etc) to go to one’s head / (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head / to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait) syn 校花 xiào huā the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草[xiao4 cao3]) / school beauty queen / campus belle / prom queen 才女 cái nǚ talented girl syn 妖娆 妖嬈 yāo ráo enchanting / alluring (of a girl) syn 女童 nǚ tóng small girl syn 黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn 讨人 討人 tǎo rén (old) girl trafficked into a brothel to work as prostitute 丫鬟 yā huan servant girl / maid syn 幼女 yòu nǚ young girl syn 发卡 發卡 fā kǎ to issue a card / (slang) to reject a guy or a girl / to chuck syn 马子 馬子 mǎ zi bandit / brigand / gambling chip / chamber pot / (slang) girl / chick / babe syn 马子 馬子 mǎ zǐ (slang) girl / chick / babe syn 丫环 丫環 yā huan servant girl / maid 妙龄 妙齡 miào líng (of a girl) in the prime of youth syn 靓妹 靚妹 liàng mèi pretty girl 娇嗔 嬌嗔 jiāo chēn (of a girl) to feign anger coquettishly 闯红灯 闖紅燈 chuǎng hóng dēng to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating 慰安妇 慰安婦 wèi ān fù comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu") 姑奶奶 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach 织女 織女 zhī nǚ Vega (star) / Weaving girl of folk tales syn 村姑 cūn gū village girl / country bumpkin syn 许配 許配 xǔ pèi to betroth a girl (in arranged marriages) syn 萝莉 蘿莉 luó lì a Lolita (young, cute girl) 