小姐 (siu2 ze2 | xiao3 jie3) : miss, young lady

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小姐

siu2 ze2

xiao3 jie3

miss, young lady; bar girl; a prostitute

Level: 2 Google Frequency: 4,710,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

小姐

This word has been viewed 10267 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 4th Aug 2009 18:07

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Characters in this word:

小 siu2 - small, tiny, little
姐 ze2 - elder sister; young women

11 compounds containing this word:

空中小姐 - air stewardess; female flight attendant
禮儀小姐 - a ritual girl (greeters or women helping bigwigs present awards)
白小姐 - heroin (lit., "Miss White")
舞小姐 - dancing girls; dance hostesses
世界小姐 - a beauty queen (lit., "Miss World")
環球小姐 - Miss Universe
友誼小姐 - Miss Congeniality
香港小姐 - Miss Hong Kong; a beautiful woman
三八小姐 - a feminist who is hostile towards men (lit., "Miss Bitch")
Common Formations:
形象小姐 - image representative of a product or a brand (lit., "Miss Image")
選美小姐 - Miss Congeniality

Showing 1 example containing 小姐

小姐，唔該借借。粵
Excuse me, Miss.
[For asking her to move, rather than trying to attract attention]

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Decimal representation of this word: 小姐

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