Illustration: A young adult woman stands beside the open veranda of a Taishō-period home, dressed in an everyday kimono with her hair neatly pinned up. She has tucked a freshly picked camellia beside her hair and is checking its position in a small hand mirror.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

乙おと女め

otome

young woman, maiden

少女 is normally read しょうじょ; 乙女 is the usual spelling for おとめ. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 乙女おとめたちは彼かれに胸むねをときめかす。

    He makes young girls' hearts flutter.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 命短いのちみじかし、恋こいせよ乙女おとめ

    Life is short; fall in love, young woman.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. その直後ちょくごに目めに涙なみだを浮うかべるなど一貫いっかんして純情じゅんじょうな乙女おとめとして描えがかれている。

    She is consistently portrayed as a pure-hearted young woman, as when tears well up in her eyes immediately afterward.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 乙女

  • 乙the latter; duplicateOnオツ・イツKunおと-・きのと
  • 女woman; femaleOnジョ・ニョ・ニョウKunおんな・め

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