小媳婦

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	daughter-in-law; wife; partner
trad. (小媳婦)		小	媳婦
simp. (小媳妇)		小	媳妇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎoxífù, xiǎoxífer

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧˊ ㄈㄨˋ, ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧˊ ˙ㄈㄜㄦ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² sik¹ fu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoxífù → xiǎoxífu (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧˊ ㄈㄨˋ → ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧˊ ˙ㄈㄨ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎosífů
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-hsi²-fu⁵
    • Yale: syǎu-syí-fu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheaushyi.fuh
    • Palladius: сяосифу (sjaosifu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi³⁵ fu⁵¹/ → /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi³⁵ fu³/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoxífùr → xiǎoxífur (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧˊ ㄈㄨˋㄦ → ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧˊ ˙ㄈㄨㄦ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎosífůr
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-hsi²-fu⁵-ʼrh
    • Yale: syǎu-syí-fur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheaushyi.full
    • Palladius: сяосифур (sjaosifur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi³⁵ fuɻʷ⁵¹/ → /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi³⁵ fuɻʷ³/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, colloquial, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoxífer
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄒㄧˊ ˙ㄈㄜㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎosífe̊r
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-hsi²-fê⁵-ʼrh
    • Yale: syǎu-syí-fer
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheaushyi.fe'l
    • Palladius: сяосифэр (sjaosifɛr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi³⁵ fɤɻ³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² sik¹ fu⁵
    • Yale: síu sīk fúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² sik⁷ fu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² xig¹ fu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ sɪk̚⁵ fuː¹³/

Noun

小媳婦

1. (colloquial) tongyangxi; girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law; child bride
2. (colloquial) young married woman
3. (colloquial) one who gets blamed; one who takes the rap; punching bag
4. (colloquial) mistress

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 童養媳 (“child bride”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		童養媳
Mandarin	Beijing	團圓媳婦兒
	Taiwan	童養媳
	Harbin	小媳婦兒, 團圓媳婦兒
	Yantai (Muping)	童養媳
	Jinan	團養子媳婦
	Luoyang	囤養媳婦兒
	Wanrong	童養媳婦
	Xi'an	囤養媳
	Yinchuan	團媳婦子
	Lanzhou	童養媳婦子
	Ürümqi	童養媳兒
	Wuhan	小媳婦
	Chengdu	小接媳婦兒, 童養媳
	Guiyang	童養媳
	Liuzhou	小媳婦
	Xuzhou	團兒媳婦
	Yangzhou	小媳婦子, 小媳婦
	Nanjing	秧媳婦
	Changle (Qinjiang)	談圓媳婦
	Yanping	媳婦崽
Cantonese	Guangzhou	新婦仔
	Hong Kong	新婦仔
	Dongguan	新婦仔
	Yangjiang	雞竹妹
Gan	Nanchang	童娘子
	Lichuan	屯養新婦
	Pingxiang	細新婦
Hakka	Meixian	細心臼仔, 等郎妹
	Xingning	等郎妹
	Yudu	食奶新婦, 食奶女子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	細心臼仔
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	心臼仔
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	心臼仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	細心臼仔
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	心臼仔
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	細心臼
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	童養媳
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	細心臼仔, 花囤女
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	細心臼
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	細新婦仔, 花囤女
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	細心臼
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	新婦子
Huizhou	Jixi	細新婦
Jin	Taiyuan	童養媳婦兒
	Xinzhou	童養子媳婦兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	新婦仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	新婦囝
	Changle	新婦囝
	Fuqing	新婦囝
	Yongtai	新婦囝
	Gutian	新婦囝
	Fu'an	新婦囝
	Ningde	新婦囝
	Shouning	新婦囝
	Zhouning	新婦囝
	Fuding	新婦囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	新婦仔
	Quanzhou	新婦仔
	Zhangzhou	新婦仔
	Taipei	新婦仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	新婦仔
	Kaohsiung	新婦仔
	Yilan	新婦仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	新婦仔育, 新婦仔
	Taichung	新婦仔
	Taichung (Wuqi)	新婦仔
	Tainan	新婦仔
	Taitung	新婦仔
	Hsinchu	新婦仔
	Kinmen	新婦仔
	Penghu (Magong)	新婦仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	新婦仔
	Longyan	新婦崽
	Shantou	新婦囝
	Jieyang	嫂囝, 新婦囝
	Leizhou	新婦囝
	Haikou	飼新婦
Puxian Min	Putian	新婦囝
	Xianyou	新婦囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	童養媳
Wu	Shanghai	養新婦, 童養媳
	Shanghai (Chongming)	養新婦
	Suzhou	養新婦
	Wuxi	養新婦
	Danyang	養新婦
	Hangzhou	養媳婦兒
	Ningbo	養生新婦, 養生
	Wenzhou	新婦兒
	Jinhua	小新婦兒
Xiang	Changsha	細媳婦
	Loudi	細媳婦

Derived terms

• 剛過門的小媳婦／刚过门的小媳妇