老姑娘

老姑娘

Chinese

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	girl; maiden; daughter
trad. (老姑娘)		老	姑娘
simp. #(老姑娘)		老	姑娘
Literally: “old girl”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǎogūniang

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ ㄍㄨ ˙ㄋㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵ gu¹ noeng⁴
• Xiang (Wiktionary): lau³ gu¹ nyian²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎogūniang
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄍㄨ ˙ㄋㄧㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎoguniång
    • Wade–Giles: lao³-ku¹-niang⁵
    • Yale: lǎu-gū-nyang
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laogu.niang
    • Palladius: лаогунян (laogunjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ku⁵⁵ njɑŋ²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lou⁵ gu¹ noeng⁴
    • Yale: lóuh gū nèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵ gu¹ noeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵ gu¹ nêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³ kuː⁵⁵ nœːŋ²¹/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: lau³ gu¹ nyian²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɒu⁴¹ ku³³ n̠ʲiæn¹³/

Noun

老姑娘

1. spinster; old unmarried woman
2. youngest daughter

Synonyms

• (spinster):

Dialectal synonyms of 老處女 (“spinster; old unmarried woman”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		老處女, 老姑娘
Mandarin	Taiwan	老處女
	Harbin	老姑娘
	Jinan	老姑娘
	Luoyang	老閨女, 老姑娘
	Wanrong	老女子
	Xi'an	老姑娘
	Yinchuan	老丫頭
	Lanzhou	老姑娘
	Xining	老丫頭, 老姑娘
	Ürümqi	老丫頭, 老姑娘
	Wuhan	老姑娘
	Chengdu	老姑娘兒
	Guiyang	老姑娘
	Liuzhou	老女, 老姑娘
	Xuzhou	家姑老, 老閨女, 老大閨女
	Yangzhou	老姑娘
	Nanjing	老姑娘
Cantonese	Guangzhou	老姑婆
	Hong Kong	老姑婆
	Taishan	老姑婆
	Dongguan	老姑婆
Gan	Nanchang	老姑子
	Lichuan	老姑娘
	Pingxiang	老女
Hakka	Meixian	老姑娘, 老姑婆
	Yudu	老紅花女
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	老姑婆
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	老姑婆
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	老姑婆
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	老姑婆
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	老姑婆
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	老姑婆
Huizhou	Jixi	老姑娘
Jin	Taiyuan	老閨女, 老姑娘
	Xinzhou	老閨女
Min Bei	Jian'ou	公眾姑嫲婆, 老姑嫲
Min Nan	Xiamen	老姑婆
	Quanzhou	老姑婆
	Zhangzhou	老姑婆
	Jieyang	老姑婆
	Leizhou	老姑婆
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	老大姐
Wu	Shanghai	老姑娘, 老小姐
	Shanghai (Chongming)	老姑娘
	Suzhou	老小姐, 老姑娘
	Danyang	老姑娘
	Hangzhou	老姑娘兒
	Ningbo	老大姑娘, 老大小姐
	Wenzhou	老院主
	Jinhua	老姑娘
Xiang	Changsha	老姑娘
	Loudi	老嫚姎

• (youngest daughter): 小女兒／小女儿 (xiǎonǚ'ér), 老閨女／老闺女 (lǎoguīnü), 幼女 (yòunǚ), 幺女 (yāonǚ); (literary) 小女 (xiǎonǚ); (Sichuan) 幺女兒／幺女儿; (Cantonese) 孻女／𡥧女