娘

娘 (radical 38, 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女戈日女 (VIAV), four-corner 4343₂, composition ⿰女良)

• 𭉻, 𦷄, 𬏒

• KangXi: page 262, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6304
• Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1054, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5A18

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *naŋ) : semantic 女 + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ).

Not attested in pre-Tang texts. It may ultimately have been a fusion of 女郎 (MC ɳɨʌ^X lɑŋ, “lady”) (Coblin, 1994).

Alternatively, it may be a loan from Proto-Turkic *ana ~ *eńe (“mother”); compare Turkish ana and Uyghur ئانا‎ (ana) (Vovin and McCraw, 2011).

娘

1. woman, especially a young girl

   姑娘  ―  gūniang  ―  girl

2. (colloquial) mother; ma
3. wife of another person
4. elderly lady
5. (religion) "The Lady", an epithet of the Fujianese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖／妈祖).

   • 天后宮位於澎湖縣馬公市正義街上，俗稱『天妃宮』、『媽祖宮』，在明代稱為『娘宮』、『媽娘宮』、『娘媽宮』『媽宮』等 [MSC, trad.]
     天后宫位于澎湖县马公市正义街上，俗称‘天妃宫’、‘妈祖宫’，在明代称为‘娘宫’、‘妈娘宫’、‘娘妈宫’‘妈宫’等 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2013?, "澎湖天后宫 (Penghu Tianhou Temple), 蚂蜂窝 (Mafengwo)

     Tiānhòu Gōng wèiyú Pénghú Xiàn Mǎgōng Shì Zhèngyì Jiē shàng, súchēng ‘Tiānfēi Gōng’, ‘Māzǔ Gōng’, zài Míngdài chēngwéi ‘Niáng Gōng’, ‘Māniáng Gōng’, ‘Niángmā Gōng’ ‘Mā Gōng’ děng [Pinyin]

     The Tianhou Temple located on Zhengyi Street, Magong City, Penghu County, commonly known as the “Tianfei Temple” or the “Mazu Temple”, known as “Niang Temple”, “Maninang Temple”, “Niangma Temple”, etc. during the Ming dynasty

6. girly; effeminate; feminine
7. (～母) (phonology) a Middle Chinese initial and the 'Phags-pa script letter ꡇ (ny-)

Others:

• → Khmer: នាង (niəng, “young woman; girl”)
• → Lao: ນາງ (nāng, “woman; girl; lady; Mrs.”)
• → Thai: นาง (naang, “woman; wife; female lover”)
• → Vietnamese: nàng (“lady; young woman; she”)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: にょう (nyō)^{←にやう (nyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぢやう (dyau, historical)}
• Tō-on: にゃん (nyan)
• Kun: むすめ (musume, 娘, Jōyō); こ (ko, 娘)

Compound of 生す (musu, “to beget”) +‎ 女 (me, “female”).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) むすめ​ [mùsúméꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[3][2]
  • IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝsɨᵝme̞]

娘 (counter 人, hiragana むすめ, rōmaji musume)

1. (humble) a daughter
   • 2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi; Yamada, Kotaro, “最さい終しゅう話わ　それぞれの道みちへ [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], volume 5 (fiction), Jump Remix edition, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 352:

     王 (おう)国 (こく)の『娘 (むすめ)』セシリア

     Ōkoku no ‘Musume’ Seshiria

     Cecilia, ‘Daughter’ of the Kingdom

• (daughter): 娘 (むすめ)さん (musume-san), お嬢 (じょう)さん (ojōsan) (honorific)

• 女 (じょ)子 (し) (joshi): girl
• 女 (おんな)の子 (こ) (onna no ko): girl
• 女 (おんな) (onna): woman
• 息 (むす)子 (こ) (musuko): son
• 男 (だん)子 (し) (danshi): boy
• 男 (おとこ)の子 (こ) (otoko no ko): boy
• 男 (おとこ) (otoko): man

Alternative spelling. See 子 (ko).

娘 (hiragana こ, rōmaji ko)

1. Alternative spelling of 子 (“girl”)
   • 1996 February 20 [Feb 15 1988], Adachi, Mitsuru, “テイク・オフ [Take Off]”, in SHORT PROGRAMショート・プログラム [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 1 (fiction), 25th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 107:

     自 (じ)分 (ぶん)で自 (じ)分 (ぶん)の行 (こう)動 (どう)に条 (じょう)件 (けん)をつけちゃうんだよ、この娘 (こ)——例 (たと)えば、毎 (まい)年 (とし)初 (はつ)雪 (ゆき)が降 (ふ)るまでモチは食 (く)わないとか、霊 (れい)柩 (きゅう)車 (しゃ)が通 (とお)るまで道 (みち)を渡 (わた)らないとか、ネコがあくびするまでコタツを出 (で)ないとか。

     Jibun de jibun no kōdō ni jōken o tsukechaun da yo, kono ko—— Tatoeba, maitoshi hatsuyuki ga furu made mochi wa kuwanai toka, reikyūsha ga tōru made michi o wataranai toka, neko ga akubisuru made kotatsu o denai toka.

     This girl, I’m telling you, she sets terms for every of her own actions— Like, not eating mochi until the first snowfall of each year, not crossing the street until the hearse passes by, or not leaving the kotatsu until her cat yawns.

   • 2000 January 20 [Nov 20 1982], Tezuka, Osamu, “第３話　スタ一誕生 [Chapter 3: Birth of a Star]”, in ブラック・ジャック [Black Jack], volume 11 (fiction), 8th edition, Tokyo: Hakusensha, →ISBN, page 62:

     その娘 (こ)はもう死 (し)んだ。魅 (み)力 (りょく)的 (てき)な子 (こ)だった。

     Sono ko wa mō shinda. Miryokuteki na ko datta.

     That girl is already dead. She was very attractive.

• お転 (てん)婆 (ば)娘 (こ) (otenbako, “tomboy”)
• ドジっ娘 (こ) (dojikko, “clumsy girl”)
• 眼 (め)鏡 (がね)っ娘 (こ) (meganekko, “bespectacled girl”)

娘 • (nang/rang) (hangeul 낭/랑)

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娘 (nương, nàng, nường)

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