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big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
HSK 4
schoolgirl / female student / girl
HSK 1
girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
green tea / (slang) (of a girl) seemingly innocent and charming but actually calculating and manipulative; a girl who has these qualities
HSK 3
to officially launch (a policy, program etc) / to appear on stage / to appear publicly / (of a bar girl) to leave with a client
HSK 6
(idiom) to have a girl on each arm
(coll.) girl with a sweet, cute demeanor
girl group
double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
(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)
girl / young lady
HSK 7-9
little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泡* | 泡* | *泡
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
HSK 6
Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
(coll.) pretty girl
to give birth to a baby girl
girl / servant girl / (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment)
HSK 7-9
girl; lass
servant girl / maid
young girl
girl
beginning of maturity (of a girl)
to issue a card / (slang) to reject a guy or a girl / to chuck
spare tire / (slang) fallback guy (or girl)
(literary) (of a girl) to marry
(dialect) younger sister / girl
to reach marriageable age (a girl's fifteenth birthday)
the prettiest girl in the school (see also 校草) / school beauty queen / campus belle / prom queen
boys and girls / teenagers
(Japanese) high school girl’s uniform
female geek; female nerd; otaku girl
(slang) young girl who displays skills, maturity, or coolness beyond her age
gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman)
HSK 7-9
comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
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
village girl / country bumpkin
beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance / prettiest girl ever
limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes)
(of a girl) to feign anger coquettishly
formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family)
slave girl / servant girl
to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating
girl who engages in enjo-kōsai / see also 援助交際|援助交际
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
to secretively take advantage of others or public resources for minor personal gain / to grope a woman or girl
good little boy (or girl)
local girl (referring to a Taiwanese benshengren 本省人)
(coll.) to flirt; to hit on girls
young woman / maiden / girl / CL: 個|个,
well-behaved girl; good girl
(coll.) lass / (dialect) little girl
undefiled (girl) / virgin / (of computer system) clean / uncorrupted
little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva
sales girl; retail associate (female)
maiden / virgin girl
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
handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status)
(Tw) naive and innocent (girl or boy); underage prostitute (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [iù-khí])
all-girls school
lit. little princess / fig. spoiled girl / female version of 小皇帝
servant girl
the prettiest girl in the class
little girl
(Internet slang) spoiled city girl from a rich family
(old) girl trafficked into a brothel to work as prostitute
to betroth a girl (in arranged marriages)
if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
dream guy or girl; ideal romantic partner
to like looking attractive (usually of girls) / aestheticism
child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
honey (endearment in addressing a little girl)
young and pretty / pretty girl
pedophile (slang, referring to the case of a Hong Kong child abductor who lured girls with the prospect of seeing "goldfish" in his apartment)
servant girl / maid
to pick up girls / to play around with girls / to chase after girls
to pick up a girl; to get a girl
(coll.) girl who shows signs of becoming a beauty; budding beauty
call girl center
lolicon or rorikon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young girls in an erotic manner
silly little girl
(of a girl) in the prime of youth
sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
bandit; brigand / gambling chip / chamber pot / (slang) girl; chick; babe
yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl)
girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house
little girl (of toddler age)
to force an honest girl into prostitution (idiom) / to debauch
(idiom) (of a girl) 13 or 14 years old; early teens; adolescence
(chiefly Cantonese) pretty girl
first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
ugly girl (slang) (Tw)
female escort / bar girl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丫* | 丫* | *丫
fork / branch / bifurcation / girl
(dialect) girl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嬅* | 嬅* | *嬅
beautiful / used in girls' names
girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman
"The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai", a novel by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆 depicting the lives of Shanghai courtesans in the late Qing dynasty
enchanting / alluring (of a girl)
(slang) female high school student / all-girls high school

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