少女

Noun

 * 1) young woman; girl
 * 2)  youngest daughter

Etymology 1


From compound. Compare modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a (young, little) girl
 * 2)  a style of anime and manga made for young women, shojo

Derived terms

 * : a kind of traditional Japanese light drama with no male actors and mostly young girls playing the parts
 * : hobbies or interests common to young girls
 * : girlhood, one's girlhood

Etymology 2
From. Originally a compound of. Compare, originally meaning "young boy".

Noun

 * 1) a young woman, adult but unmarried: a maiden
 * 2) a girl
 * 3) a female virgin
 * 4)  a celestial maiden, a fairy, a nymph
 * 5)  a young woman dancer performing at the  ceremony in the eleventh lunar month

Derived terms

 * : behavior appropriate to an adult unmarried woman
 * : alternate term for, , a type of sea vegetable in order (syn. ), of class Phaeophyceae (brown algae), used to make nori
 * : an unmarried young woman; a girl or young woman who dances kagura at a shrine; a miko
 * : a girl's innocence, a girl's sensitive nature
 * : a kind of one-person puppet show performed by girls or young women
 * : a female miko