少奶奶

Chinese

		young; few; little young; few; little; lack	paternal grandmother; gramma; granny
simp. and trad. (少奶奶)		少	奶奶

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàonǎinai

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˋ ㄋㄞˇ ˙ㄋㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu³ naai^5-1 naai^5-1
Min Nan (POJ): siáu-nái-nái

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shàonǎinai
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˋ ㄋㄞˇ ˙ㄋㄞ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shawnae.nhai
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ naɪ̯²¹⁴ naɪ̯⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: siu³ naai^5-1 naai^5-1
  - Yale: siu nāai nāai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu³ naai^5-1 naai^5-1
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu³ nai¹ nai¹
  - IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³³ näːi̯¹³⁻⁵⁵ näːi̯¹³⁻⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáu-nái-nái
  - Tâi-lô: siáu-nái-nái
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siawnaynae
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiaʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiaʊ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ nãɪ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ nãɪ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiaʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɕiaʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiaʊ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ nãɪ⁴¹/

Noun

少奶奶

young mistress of the house; wife of the young master
- 土豪劣紳的小姐少奶奶的牙床上，也可以踏上去滾一滾。 [MSC, trad.]
  土豪劣绅的小姐少奶奶的牙床上，也可以踏上去滚一滚。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 毛澤東選集 (1991). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
  Tǔháo lièshēn de xiǎojiě shàonǎinai de yáchuáng shàng, yě kěyǐ tà shàngqù gǔn yi gǔn. [Pinyin]
  They even loll for a minute or two on the ivory-inlaid beds belonging to the young ladies in the households of the local tyrants and evil gentry.
(archaic, honorific) (somebody's, your) daughter-in-law

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