<entry eid="2195186" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1580290</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>少女</keb>
<ke_pri>ichi1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf04</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>小女</keb>
<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>しょうじょ</reb>
<re_pri>ichi1</re_pri>
<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf04</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>girl (usu. between 7 and 17)</gloss>
<gloss>young lady</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&arch;</misc>
<gloss>female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryō period)</gloss>
</sense>
<history>
<audit time="2012-08-09 08:12:44" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus</upd_name>
<upd_refs>nikk:小女:「しょうじょ（少女）」に同じ</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>小女</keb></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-08-09 23:09:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-08-10 01:26:08" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus</upd_name>
<upd_detl>forgot these... a bit messy this way though.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -19,0 +19,1 @@
+<re_restr>小女</re_restr>
@@ -25,0 +26,2 @@
+<re_restr>少女</re_restr>
+<re_restr>乙女</re_restr></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-08-10 01:30:23" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Can't be helped.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-09-28 02:12:56" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>[expl] does feel a bit odd but I think it's really helpful to
know exactly what ages we're talking about, and this is
something no one-word gloss can really convey.
removed "virgin" and "daughter" because I think they are
unnecessarily ambiguous</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijs
"ふつう7歳前後から18歳前後までの、成年に達しない女子をさす。"</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -31,0 +31,2 @@
+<gloss>little girl</gloss>
+<gloss>maiden</gloss>
@@ -32,4 +34,1 @@
-<gloss>little girl</gloss>
-<gloss>virgin</gloss>
-<gloss>maiden</gloss>
-<gloss>daughter</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">girl/woman usually between 7 and 18 years old</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-10-06 15:56:17" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -34,1 +34,1 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">girl/woman usually between 7 and 18 years old</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">female usually between 7 and 18 years old</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2016-05-11 13:09:42" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Scott</upd_name>
<upd_refs>koj daij</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -35,0 +36,6 @@
+<sense>
+<stagk>少女</stagk>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<misc>&arch;</misc>
+<gloss>female between 17 and 20 years old (Ritsuryo period)</gloss>
+</sense></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2016-05-11 13:10:55" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Scott</upd_name>
<upd_diff>@@ -37,0 +38 @@
+<stagr>しょうじょ</stagr></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2016-05-11 23:22:43" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Bit messy.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -41 +41 @@
-<gloss>female between 17 and 20 years old (Ritsuryo period)</gloss>
+<gloss>female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-11-20 05:42:41" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>ritsuryo conversion
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -41 +41 @@
-<gloss>female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)</gloss>
+<gloss>female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryō period)</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-21 23:17:02" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| 少女 | 10,369,646 | 78.0% |
| 乙女 | 2,912,291 | 21.9% |
| 小女 | 5,151 | 0.0% | <- daijr/s, koj; also こおんな (2559990), こめ (2734720)
| しょうじょ | 14,705 | N/A |
| おとめ | 368,089 | N/A |</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-22 00:57:27" stat="A">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-22 06:49:35" stat="A">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daijr</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -38 +37,0 @@
-<stagk>少女</stagk></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-07 06:50:03" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>An expl gloss is maybe not the best way to handle it, how does this look?</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr and meikyo (exact same wording):
[普通，]七，八歳から一五，六歳くらいまで</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -32 +32 @@
-<gloss>little girl</gloss>
+<gloss>girl (esp. one between 7 and 16 years old)</gloss>
@@ -35 +34,0 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">female usually between 7 and 18 years old</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-07 21:40:51" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-08 19:05:44" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>The refs are all over the place. Daijs and Wikipedia say as high as 18. I think that might be pushing it.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>shinmeikai: 普通、十歳前後から十六、七歳ぐらいまでを言う
daijs: ふつう七歳前後から一八歳前後までの、成年に達しない女子をさす。
wiki: 少女は、7歳から18歳前後の「女の子」「女子」。</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -32 +32 @@
-<gloss>girl (esp. one between 7 and 16 years old)</gloss>
+<gloss>girl (usu. between 7 and 17)</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-08 21:40:49" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-09 23:05:36" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I think おとめ should be a separate entry. It's usually written as 乙女 (the JEs don't even have 少女 for it).</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-10 09:25:10" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I agree. I'll do that.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,3 +10,0 @@
-<keb>乙女</keb>
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
@@ -19,2 +15,0 @@
-<re_restr>少女</re_restr>
-<re_restr>小女</re_restr>
@@ -24,5 +18,0 @@
-</r_ele>
-<r_ele>
-<reb>おとめ</reb>
-<re_restr>少女</re_restr>
-<re_restr>乙女</re_restr>
@@ -37 +26,0 @@
-<stagr>しょうじょ</stagr></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-10 09:28:59" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>Let's get rid o "maiden" it's archaic in English</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -23 +22,0 @@
-<gloss>maiden</gloss></upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-10 12:00:59" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Obviously not a cricketer.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</history>
</entry>
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