女孩 nǚ hái girl / lass 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 单纯 單純 dān chún simple / pure / unsophisticated / merely / purely 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 土包子 tǔ bāo zi country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound 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 淳朴 淳樸 chún pǔ simple and honest / unsophisticated / guileless syn 校花 xiào huā the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草[xiao4 cao3]) / school beauty queen / campus belle / prom queen 豆蔻 dòu kòu cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) / fig. a girl's teenage years / maidenhood / a budding beauty 质朴 質樸 zhì pǔ simple / plain / unadorned / unaffected / unsophisticated / rustic / earthy syn 土气 土氣 tǔ qì rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated 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 婢女 bì nǚ slave girl / servant girl syn 木讷 木訥 mù nè wooden and slow of speech / slow-speeched / inarticulate / unsophisticated 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 妖娆 妖嬈 yāo ráo enchanting / alluring (of a girl) syn 粗陋 cū lòu crude / coarse / unsophisticated / shallow syn 许配 許配 xǔ pèi to betroth a girl (in arranged marriages) syn 织女 織女 zhī nǚ Vega (star) / Weaving girl of folk tales 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 辣妹 là mèi hot chick / sexy girl / abbr. LM 小妹妹 xiǎo mèi mei little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva 靓女 靚女 liàng nǚ (dialect) pretty girl 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 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 浑厚 渾厚 hún hòu simple and honest / unsophisticated / (music etc) deep and resounding 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 zǐ (slang) girl / chick / babe syn 丫环 丫環 yā huan servant girl / maid 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") 萝莉 蘿莉 luó lì a Lolita (young, cute girl) 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 土 tǔ earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn 丫 yā fork / branch / bifurcation / girl syn 花童 huā tóng page boy / flower girl (at a wedding) 土里土气 土裡土氣 tǔ lǐ tǔ qì unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth 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] 素朴 素樸 sù pǔ simple / unadorned / unsophisticated / naive syn 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) 稚女 zhì nǚ little girl (of toddler age) 豆蔻年华 豆蔻年華 dòu kòu nián huá (of a girl) 13 or 14 years old / early teens / adolescence syn 美眉 měi méi (coll.) pretty girl 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 情窦初开 情竇初開 qíng dòu chū kāi first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom) syn 绝代佳人 絕代佳人 jué dài jiā rén beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom) / woman of peerless elegance / prettiest girl ever 大家闺秀 大家閨秀 dà jiā guī xiù girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house 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 丫头片子 丫頭片子 yā tou piàn zi (coll.) silly girl / little 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 涉世未深 shè shì wèi shēn unpracticed / inexperienced / naive / unsophisticated 