使女

Chinese

	to make; to cause; to enable to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; messenger	female; woman; daughter
trad. (使女)	使	女
simp. ^#(使女)	使	女
anagram	女使

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shǐnǚ

(Zhuyin): ㄕˇ ㄋㄩˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si² neoi⁵
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ́-ńg

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shǐnǚ [Phonetic: shínǚ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˇ ㄋㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shǐhnyǔ
  - Wade–Giles: shih³-nü³
  - Yale: shř-nyǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyyneu
  - Palladius: шинюй (šinjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: si² neoi⁵
  - Yale: sí néuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si² noey⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi² nêu⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː³⁵ nɵy̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ́-ńg
  - Hakka Romanization System: sii` ng`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: si³ ng³
  - Sinological IPA: /sɨ³¹ ŋ̍³¹/

Noun

使女

slave-girl; servant girl; maid
(Hakka) adopted daughter

Synonyms

丫頭／丫头 (yātou)
丫鬟 (yāhuan)
女侍 (nǚshì)
女奴 (nǚnú)
女婢 (nǚbì)
女招待 (nǚzhāodài)
妮子 (nīzi) (obsolete)
婢女 (bìnǚ)
小妮子 (xiǎonīzi) (obsolete)

Dialectal synonyms of 婢女 (“servant girl”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		婢
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		婢女, 女婢, 丫鬟, 丫頭, 使女
Mandarin	Beijing	丫鬟, 丫鬟兒, 丫頭子
	Harbin	丫鬟
	Yantai (Muping)	丫鬟兒
	Jinan	支使丫頭
	Luoyang	丫頭
	Wanrong	丫鬟
	Xi'an	丫頭子
	Yinchuan	使喚丫頭, 使喚
	Lanzhou	丫鬟, 丫頭
	Xining	丫鬟, 丫頭
	Ürümqi	使喚丫頭, 丫鬟
	Wuhan	丫頭
	Chengdu	丫頭兒, 丫頭子, 丫鬟
	Guiyang	丫頭
	Liuzhou	丫頭, 妹崽
	Xuzhou	使用丫頭子, 使用丫頭
	Yangzhou	丫頭
	Nanjing	丫頭兒, 小丫頭兒
Cantonese	Guangzhou	妹仔
	Hong Kong	妹仔
	Dongguan	妹仔
Gan	Nanchang	丫頭
	Lichuan	姨婆
	Pingxiang	丫鬟
Hakka	Meixian	細老婢, 老婢仔
	Yudu	婢婆
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	使女
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	使婢
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	使女
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	使女
Huizhou	Jixi	丫頭
Jin	Taiyuan	蠻妮子, 妮子
Jin	Xinzhou	丫花
Northern Min	Jian'ou	奶婆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	丫頭, 丫鬟, 丫頭囝, 義女
Southern Min	Xiamen	查某𡢃仔, 查某𡢃, 𡢃婢
	Quanzhou	查某𡢃, 𡢃婢
	Zhangzhou	查某𡢃仔, 查某𡢃, 𡢃婢, 撽作
	Taipei	查某𡢃
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	查某𡢃仔
	Kaohsiung	查某𡢃
	Yilan	查某𡢃
	Changhua (Lukang)	查某𡢃
	Taichung	查某𡢃仔
	Tainan	查某𡢃仔
	Hsinchu	查某𡢃仔
	Kinmen	娘𡢃
	Penghu (Magong)	查某𡢃
	Manila (Hokkien)	番仔婆, 查某𡢃, 番婆
	Longyan	跤作, 跤作仔
	Shantou	赤跤囝, 花囝
	Leizhou	妹囝
	Haikou	儂囝
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	妹囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	妹崽, 丫鬟
Wu	Shanghai	丫頭, 使女
	Suzhou	丫頭
	Danyang	丫鬟
	Hangzhou	丫頭
	Ningbo	丫頭, 丫頭屄
	Wenzhou	細奶兒, 丫頭, 丫鬟
	Jinhua	囡女
Xiang	Changsha	丫鬟, 丫頭

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