嬢・娘|じょうjou[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. noununmarried woman
2. noun (suffix)Missafter a name
   田中たなか嬢じょうは長年ながねんアメリカにいたので英語えいごを話はなすのが非常ひじょうにうまい。↗

   Having been in America for many years, Miss Tanaka is a very good speaker of English.
3. noun (suffix)-ess; -etteafter a line of work

• Relatedお嬢さんおじょうさんNeutralAn honorific for another person's daughter or a young lady; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix, as in 「田中嬢」「受付嬢」.
• Related少女しょうじょWrittenThe same word, occasionally written 「少女」 but still read 「おとめ」; 「少女」 normally read 「しょうじょ」 is a separate word.
• Related女の子おんなのこNeutralThe everyday word for a girl or daughter, the most colloquial of these; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.
• RelatedガールNeutralA loanword for girl, used mostly in compounds like 「ガールフレンド」「チアガール」; it does not serve as an honorific suffix.
• Related娘むすめNeutralMeans a daughter or a girl, also a young unmarried woman; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix, as in 「受付嬢」, and adding 「お」 gives 「お嬢」.
• Related女児じょじWrittenA formal term for a female child, typical of statistics and news reports rather than literary writing; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.
• Related幼女ようじょNeutralA very young girl, often seen in news reports; 「嬢」 refers to unmarried women and mostly works as a suffix.
• Related令嬢れいじょうWrittenAn honorific for another's daughter, also a young lady of a good family, as in 「ご令嬢」; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.
• Related女子じょしCasualA dialectal, old-fashioned word for a woman or girl; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.
• Related乙女おとめWrittenAn elegant literary word for a maiden or virgin, with a sense of purity; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.
• Related娘さんむすめさんNeutralAn honorific for another person's daughter; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.
• Related御令嬢ごれいじょうWrittenAn honorific for another person's daughter, a young lady of good family; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.
• Related童女どうじょWrittenWritten-style word for a girl child, found mainly in classical texts; in daily speech say 「女の子」, and 「嬢」 works as a suffix.
• Related息女そくじょWrittenA written honorific for the daughter of someone of high standing; 「嬢」 mostly works as a suffix.

「嬢」 is chiefly a suffix for an unmarried woman or a woman in a certain job, as in 「受付嬢」. To speak respectfully of someone's daughter use 「お嬢さん」「娘さん」 or 「令嬢」. For girls in everyday speech, 「女の子」 is the default; 「女児」 is the formal term in statistics and news, 「乙女」「童女」 are literary, and 「ガール」 appears in compounds.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 女性じょせい、特とくに若わかい女性じょせい。
2. 風俗ふうぞく嬢じょう。
3. 女性じょせい、特とくに若わかい女性じょせいの名前なまえ、職名しょくめいにつける接尾辞せつびじ。
4. 未婚みこん女性じょせい。