姑娘
gū​niang HSK3

girl

姑娘 gū​niang
girl noun
a young woman or young lady

那个穿红衣服的姑娘是谁？

nà gè chuān hóng yī​fu de gū​niang shì shéi?

Who is that girl in red?

daughter noun
a person's female child (often used in Northern dialects)

老王家有两个姑娘，都没有儿子。

lǎo Wáng jiā yǒu liǎng gè gū​niang, dōu méi​yǒu ér​zi.

Lao Wang's family has two daughters and no sons.

paternal aunt noun
the sister of one's father in archaic or dialectal usage

按照我们那里的老规矩，我应该管爸爸的妹妹叫姑娘。

àn​zhào wǒ​men nà​li de lǎo guī​ju, wǒ yīng​gāi guǎn bà​ba de mèi​mei jiào gū​niang.

According to the old customs of my hometown, I should call my father's sister 'Guniang'.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
112.2 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
60.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

Classifier

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)