Young woman in Chinese
young woman · HSK 4
姑娘
- 姑 father's sister
- 娘 mother
那个姑娘笑得很好看。 That girl has a lovely smile.
Other ways to say young woman
How do you say young woman in Chinese?
Young woman in Chinese is 姑娘 (gū niang). You can also say 妹妹 (mèi mei), 女生 (nǚ shēng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.