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 小镇 小鎮 xiǎo zhèn small town / village 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 乡村 鄉村 xiāng cūn rustic / village / countryside 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 村子 cūn zi village syn 村庄 村莊 cūn zhuāng village / hamlet / CL:座[zuo4] syn 丫头 丫頭 yā tou girl / servant girl / (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) syn 海选 海選 hǎi xuǎn (in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.) / (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers / (in the entertainment industry) open audition 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 镇长 鎮長 zhèn zhǎng town headman / mayor (of small town or village) / bailiff 村长 村長 cūn zhǎng village chief / village head 农村 農村 nóng cūn rural area / village / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 村落 cūn luò village 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 乡亲 鄉親 xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home syn 山村 shān cūn mountain village 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 山寨 shān zhài fortified hill village / mountain stronghold (esp. of bandits) / (fig.) knockoff (goods) / counterfeit / imitation 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 豆蔻 dòu kòu cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) / fig. a girl's teenage years / maidenhood / a budding beauty 田间 田間 tián jiān field / farm / farming area / village syn 同乡 同鄉 tóng xiāng person from the same village, town, or province syn 幼女 yòu nǚ young girl syn 乡镇 鄉鎮 xiāng zhèn village / township syn 黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn 乡里 鄉里 xiāng lǐ one's home town or village 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 村委会 村委會 cūn wěi huì village committee 妖娆 妖嬈 yāo ráo enchanting / alluring (of a girl) syn 乡绅 鄉紳 xiāng shēn a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire 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 村寨 cūn zhài (stockaded) village syn 本乡 本鄉 běn xiāng home village / one's native place 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 村里 cūn lǐ village / hamlet 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 里人 lǐ rén person from the same village, town or province / peasant (derog.) / (of a school of thought etc) follower 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 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 乡长 鄉長 xiāng zhǎng village chief / mayor (of village or township) 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") 地球村 dì qiú cūn global village 城中村 chéng zhōng cūn village within a city / shantytown / ghetto 百花园 百花園 bǎi huā yuán Garden of Many Flowers (name) / Baihua garden in Hongmiao village 洪廟村|洪庙村[Hong2 miao4 cun1], Shandong 萝莉 蘿莉 luó lì a Lolita (young, cute girl) 新塘 xīn táng Xintang, common town or village name / Xintang village in Guangdong province 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 荒村 huāng cūn an abandoned village syn 备胎 備胎 bèi tāi spare tire / (slang) fallback guy (or girl) 奥运村 奧運村 ào yùn cūn Olympic Village 聚落 jù luò settlement / dwelling place / town / village syn 幼齿 幼齒 yòu chǐ (Tw) naive and innocent (girl or boy) / underage prostitute (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [iù-khí]) 龙井茶 龍井茶 lóng jǐng chá Longjing tea, aka Dragon Well tea, a high-quality pan-roasted green tea from the area of Longjing Village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang 丰沛 豐沛 fēng pèi copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖[Han4 Gao1 zu3] / fig. majestic syn 农村信用合作社 農村信用合作社 self-financing village group 出阁 出閣 chū gé (of a girl) to marry (literary) syn 杏花村 xìng huā cūn village of blossoming apricot trees where one can find a wineshop (reference to the famous poem 清明 by 杜牧[Du4 Mu4]) 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 浩特 hào tè nomadic camp / town or village (Mongolian: khot) 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 