女児

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 女児 is read as じょじ and means a girl or female child.
• Basic usage: It can identify a lost child protected by an attendant or a girl living with her grandmother in a story.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A lost child under protection
  • 迷子になった女児 is the girl whom an attendant protects after she gets lost in the park. Example: 公園で迷子になった女児を係員が保護した。
• A girl in a story
  • 物語の女児 identifies the girl living alone with her grandmother on an island. Example: 物語の女児は祖母と二人で島に暮らしている。