音読み: ジョウ（ニョウ）
訓読み: むすめ
画数: 10
部首: 女（おんなへん）
Meaning
Daughter / Girl
- 娘 — daughter; girl
- 一人娘 — only daughter
- 母娘 — mother and daughter
- 小娘 — young girl (colloquial)
娘 first meant a young unmarried woman, later becoming the common word for “daughter.”
The woman radical shows femininity, while 良 adds the sense of “good” — together suggesting a kind or virtuous girl.
娘 is built from 女 (woman) on the left and the phonetic/semantic element 良 (“good/pleasant”) on the right.
Think of it as a “good young woman” — traditionally an unmarried girl — and today commonly “daughter.”
Creates
生娘 — innocent / unsophisticated girl.