sheng nu

Etymology
Borrowed from. Typologically compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A woman in her mid- to late twenties and not yet married, particularly an unmarried successful businesswoman.
 * 2) * 2010 Schott, Ben (15 March 2010). "Leftover Ladies & 3S Women". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
 * The increasing prevalence of shengnü in China has boosted the number of shengnan – leftover men.
 * 1) * 2012, Fincher, Leta Hong (12 October 2012). "OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; China's 'Leftover' Women". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013:
 * In 2007, the Women’s Federation defined “leftover” women (sheng nu) as unmarried women over the age of 27 and China’s Ministry of Education added the term to its official lexicon.
 * 1) * 2012, Robert L. Moore and Li Wei, "Modern Love in China", in Michele Antoinette Paludi, The Psychology of Love, volume 1, page 31:
 * Most of these parents come to this “marriage market” out of concern for their child being sheng nu (leftover women) or sheng nan (leftover men))—a rather stigmatized term for a growing number of young men and young women in their late twenties and early thirties who are well educated and career-minded but still single.
 * 1) * 2012, Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (August 21, 2012). "Romance With Chinese Characteristics". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
 * Women, meanwhile, must be married by 27; after that they are branded sheng nu or “leftover women.” (This derogatory term — whose prefix “sheng” is the same word used in “leftover food” — was listed as a new word in 2007 by the Chinese Ministry of Education).
 * 1) * 2013, "BE MY KEPT WOMAN - actress asked to 'name her price'", Malaysia Chronicle (Wednesday, July 31, 2013):
 * "I'm definitely a ' sheng nu ' (leftover woman). Women should learn to take it in their stride, and (realise) it's just a label that society gives us," Tsui said.
 * "I'm definitely a ' sheng nu ' (leftover woman). Women should learn to take it in their stride, and (realise) it's just a label that society gives us," Tsui said.

Usage notes

 * Used especially of educated mainland Chinese women.

Synonyms

 * (single, seventies (1970s), and stuck)

Translations

 * Armenian: տանը մնացած
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 剩女
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ylijäämänainen
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 올드 미스
 * Russian: невостре́бованная же́нщина ,
 * Turkish: