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女
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Dated term; Sensitive
maidservant; housemaid; maid
Examples
その劇で彼女は女中と女店員との二役を努めた。
In the play she doubled the parts of a maid and shop girl.
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Sensitive
hostess (in a ryokan); waitress (in a traditional restaurant)
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Archaic
court lady
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Honorific; Archaic
lady
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Noun, used as a prefix; Noun, used as a suffix
female
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Noun, used as a prefix
smaller (of the two); weaker
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Archaic; Common noun
woman
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Archaic; Common noun
wife
1
female help; female labor; female labour; female worker
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woman's handwriting
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Archaic
hiragana
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female cook; kitchenmaid
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Archaic
woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses
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Word usually written using kana alone; Dated term
mistress; kept woman; concubine
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Archaic; Orig. meaning
close female servant
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young girl unused to the ways of the world
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woman not serving in the imperial court