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お嬢さん
おじょうさん
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(someone's) daughter (polite)
Politely “your daughter” puts an honorific on both sides of a word for an “unmarried woman”.
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Written with 嬢
In a sentence
お嬢さんのお名前は？
What's your daughter's name?
お嬢さんに会わせていただきたい。
I ask to see your daughter.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Of お (honorific prefix) + 嬢 (jō, “unmarried woman; daughter”) + さん (honorific suffix)”
Source: Wiktionary: お嬢さん (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.