嬢 – lass, girl, Miss

16 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#2059 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 嬢 means lass, girl, Miss, daughter. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ジョウ (jou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is むすめ (musume). It is written with 16 strokes, under radical 女 (no. 38).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ジョウ	jou
Kun’yomi	むすめ	musume

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 女 (Kangxi radical 38). Components: 衣・女・ハ・亠.

Words using 嬢

お嬢さんおじょうさん(another's) daughter嬢じょうunmarried woman

Example sentences

お嬢さんは試験に合格なさったそうですね。

Your daughter passed the examination, I hear.

Tatoeba #227017

彼女はいささかとりすました良家のお嬢さんだった。

She was a rather prim and proper young lady.

Tatoeba #93343

田中嬢は長年アメリカにいたので英語を話すのが非常にうまい。

Having been in America for many years, Miss Tanaka is a very good speaker of English.

Tatoeba #124866

Kanji with the same radical

女委始好姿婦妻婚妥威妙娘嫌妊妹姉

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