# 處子
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): chǔzǐ
    (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˇ ㄗˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu$^2$ zi$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: chǔzǐ [Phonetic: chúzǐ]
*** Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˇ ㄗˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: chǔzǐh
*** Wade–Giles: chʻu$^3$-tzŭ$^3$
*** Yale: chǔ-dž
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuutzyy
*** Palladius: чуцзы (čuczy)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cyu$^2$ zi$^2$
*** Yale: chyú jí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsy$^2$ dzi$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: qu$^2$ ji$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰyː³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tsyhoX tsiX
Rime :
| Character | 處 | 子 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 昌 (24) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 魚 (22) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 昌與切 | 即里切 |
| Baxter | tsyhoX | tsiX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕʰɨʌ$^X$/ | /t͡sɨ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕʰiɔ$^X$/ | /t͡sɨ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕʰiɔ$^X$/ | /t͡sie$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cʰɨə̆$^X$/ | /t͡sɨ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕʰiɔ$^X$/ | /t͡siə$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕʰĭo$^X$/ | /t͡sĭə$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡ɕʰi̯wo$^X$/ | /t͡si$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | chǔ | zǐ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | cyu$^2$ | zi$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*t.qʰaʔ [ts]əʔ|tsəʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰljaʔ ʔslɯʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 處 | 子 | 子 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | chǔ | zǐ | zǐ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsyho$^X$ › | ‹ tsi$^X$ › | ‹ tsi$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*t.qʰaʔ/ | /*[ts]əʔ/ | /*tsəʔ/ |
| English | be at | 1st earthly branch | child; gentleman, master |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 處 | 子 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/1 |
| No. | 5248 | 17857 |
| Phonetic component | 虍 | 子 |
| Rime group | 魚 | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 杵 | 子 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰljaʔ/ | /*ʔslɯʔ/ |

### Noun

處子
* unmarried woman
* (literary) female virgin; maiden
    From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
    Yú dōngjiā qiáng ér lōu qí chùzǐ, zé dé qī; bù lōu, zé bù dé qī, zé jiāng lōu zhī hū? [Pinyin]
    If by getting over your neighbour's wall, and dragging away his virgin daughter, you can get a wife, while if you do not do so, you will not be able to get a wife, will you so drag her away?
    From: 《淮陽過次》 by Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), 1800s
    San jung cheoja dae yeo nyang, wan chak bunhong dan po sang. Jeokgak nangchang su gwagaek, song ni sim won nong hwahyang. [Sino-Korean]
    The girl on the mountain is tall like a woman, leisurely wearing her skirt of short pink cloth. Her bare feet totter, abash at the passerby; far inside her yard within the pine fence, she plays amid the scent of flowers.

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 處女, 處子 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 處女, 黃花閨女, 童貞女, 童女 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 黃花女兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 處女 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 黃花兒閨女, 黃花閨女 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 處女 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 黃花幼女 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 褸𩬎妹 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 處女, 黃花閨女 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 黃花閨女 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 黃花女 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 黃花女 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 人家女 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian) | 人家女 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian) | 人家女 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 人家女 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian) | 人家女 |
| Hakka | Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian) | 人家女 |
| Hakka | Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian) | 人家女 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping) | 人家女 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 阿娘囝仔 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 在室女, 儂厝查某仔 |
| Southern Min | Zhangpu | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an | 紅花女 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an (Sidu) | 紅花 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an (Tingyang, Baiyang) | 查某囝仔 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an (Wenshan, Taiping) | 紅花女 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Tamsui) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Sanxia) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Pingxi) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung (Cijin) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung (Hongmaogang, Siaogang) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 在織女 |
| Southern Min | Yilan (Luodong) | 在織女 |
| Southern Min | Yilan (Toucheng) | 在織女, 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Yongjing) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 在室的 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Tainan (Anping) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Magong) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Xiyu) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Longyan | 在室女 |
| Southern Min | Raoping | 處女 |
| Southern Min | Shantou (Chaoyang) | 紅花女 |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 包紅, 家內女 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 黃花閨女 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 黃花閨女 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 真院主 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 紅花女, 紅花姑娘, 紅花妹子 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 黃花女 |

#### Derived terms

* 處子秀／处子秀

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 処子(しょし) (shoshi)
* → Korean: 처자(處子) (cheoja)

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 處 | 子 |

### Noun

處子 • (cheoja) (hangeul 처자)
* hanja form of 처자 (“unmarried woman”)
* hanja form of 처자 (“(literary) virgin (female); maiden”)