可以 kě yǐ can / may / possible / able to / not bad / pretty good syn 看看 kàn kan to take a look at / to examine / to survey / (coll.) pretty soon syn 不错 不錯 bù cuò correct / right / not bad / pretty good syn 女孩 nǚ hái girl / lass 漂亮 piào liang pretty / beautiful syn 姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 女生 nǚ shēng schoolgirl / female student / girl 女孩子 nǚ hái zi girl syn 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 温柔 溫柔 wēn róu gentle and soft / tender / sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) syn 少女 shào nǚ girl / young lady syn 丫头 丫頭 yā tou girl / servant girl / (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) syn 花瓶 huā píng flower vase / (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent) syn 马子 馬子 mǎ zi bandit / brigand / gambling chip / chamber pot / (slang) girl / chick / babe 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 妹子 mèi zi (dialect) younger sister / girl syn 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) 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 女童 nǚ tóng small girl syn 标致 標致 biāo zhi (of a woman) beautiful / pretty 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 妮子 nī zi (coll.) lass / (dialect) little girl syn 揩油 kāi yóu to secretively take advantage of others or public resources for minor personal gain / to grope a woman or girl syn 妙龄 妙齡 miào líng (of a girl) in the prime of youth syn 女娃 nǚ wá (dialect) girl 才女 cái nǚ talented girl syn 校花 xiào huā the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草[xiao4 cao3]) / school beauty queen / campus belle / prom queen 俊美 jùn měi pretty / handsome syn 豆蔻 dòu kòu cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) / fig. a girl's teenage years / maidenhood / a budding beauty 秀丽 秀麗 xiù lì pretty / beautiful syn 八九不离十 八九不離十 bā jiǔ bù lí shí pretty close / very near / about right syn 幼女 yòu nǚ young girl syn 村姑 cūn gū village girl / country bumpkin syn 黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn 妖艳 妖艷 yāo yàn pretty and flirtatious syn 婢女 bì nǚ slave girl / servant girl syn 黄毛丫头 黃毛丫頭 huáng máo yā tou silly little girl syn 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 秋水 qiū shuǐ limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes) syn 俏丽 俏麗 qiào lì handsome / pretty syn 俊秀 jùn xiù well-favored / elegant / pretty syn 妖娆 妖嬈 yāo ráo enchanting / alluring (of a girl) syn 娇滴滴 嬌滴滴 jiāo dī dī sweet / cute / delicately pretty syn 许配 許配 xǔ pèi to betroth a girl (in arranged marriages) syn 清秀 qīng xiù delicate and pretty syn 眉清目秀 méi qīng mù xiù pretty / with delicate features syn 长得 長得 zhǎng de to look (pretty, the same etc) 织女 織女 zhī nǚ Vega (star) / Weaving girl of folk tales syn 妖冶 yāo yě pretty and flirtatious syn 童养媳 童養媳 tóng yǎng xí child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law 逼良为娼 逼良為娼 bī liáng wéi chāng to force an honest girl into prostitution (idiom) / to debauch 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 靓丽 靚麗 jìng lì beautiful / pretty 辣妹 là mèi hot chick / sexy girl / abbr. LM 小妹妹 xiǎo mèi mei little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva 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 讨人 討人 tǎo rén (old) girl trafficked into a brothel to work as prostitute 丫鬟 yā huan servant girl / maid syn 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 貌美 mào měi good looks / pretty (e.g. young woman) 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 zǐ (slang) girl / chick / babe syn 丫环 丫環 yā huan servant girl / maid 小白脸 小白臉 xiǎo bái liǎn attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo 细腰 細腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin 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") 萝莉 蘿莉 luó lì a Lolita (young, cute girl) 小家碧玉 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family syn 洋妞 yáng niū young foreign girl 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman 备胎 備胎 bèi tāi spare tire / (slang) fallback guy (or girl) 幼齿 幼齒 yòu chǐ (Tw) naive and innocent (girl or boy) / underage prostitute (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [iù-khí]) 出阁 出閣 chū gé (of a girl) to marry (literary) syn 白毛女 bái máo nǚ The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films 赛车女郎 賽車女郎 sài chē nǚ láng pit babe / paddock girl / grid girl 三陪小姐 sān péi xiǎo jie female escort / bar girl 卖笑 賣笑 mài xiào to work as a good-time girl / to prostitute oneself 淫娃 yín wá dissolute girl / slut 耳鬓厮磨 耳鬢廝磨 ěr bìn sī mó lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood syn 娇娇女 嬌嬌女 jiāo jiāo nǚ pampered girl from an affluent family 妮 nī girl / phonetic "ni" (in female names) / Taiwan pr. [ni2] syn 泡 pào bubble / foam / blister / to soak / to steep / to infuse / to dawdle / to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions syn 妞 niū girl syn 丫 yā fork / branch / bifurcation / girl syn 倩 qiàn pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) syn 花童 huā tóng page boy / flower girl (at a wedding) 姝 shū pretty woman syn 姣 jiāo cunning / pretty 因陋就简 因陋就簡 yīn lòu jiù jiǎn crude but simple methods (idiom) / use whatever methods you can / to do things simply and thriftily / It's not pretty but it works. syn 婢 bì slave girl / maid servant syn 大陆妹 大陸妹 dà lù mèi (in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macao) girl from the mainland / (Tw) Fushan lettuce 福山萵苣|福山莴苣[Fu2 shan1 wo1 ju4] 破瓜 pò guā (of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64 女大不中留 nǚ dà bù zhōng liú when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom) 