女

Vocabulary (12)

• 海外子女

  かいがいしじょ

  (Japanese) children living overseas

• 女拓

  にょたく

  (making a) print with a female body

• 帰国子女枠

  きこくしじょわく

  (school) admission category for students who have lived abroad

• 童女

  どうじょ

  (young) girl

• 息女

  そくじょ

  (your, his, her) daughter

• 女正月

  おんなしょうがつ

  15th day of the New Year (when women would belatedly do their New Year's greetings or go back to their parents' homes; in Kyoto and Osaka)

• 小公女

  しょうこうじょ

  A Little Princess (novel)

• マルサの女

  マルサのおんな

  A Taxing Woman (1987 film)

• 乙女孔雀

  おとめくじゃく

  Adiantum edgeworthii (species of maidenhair fern)

• 明の星女子短大

  あけのほしじょしたんだい

  Akenohoshi Women's Junior College

• 日女

  ひるめ

  Amaterasu Ōmikami (sun goddess)

• 天の鈿の女命

  あめのうずめのみこと

  Ame no Uzume no Mikoto (Shintō goddess)