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"text": "2010 Schott, Ben (15 March 2010). \"Leftover Ladies & 3S Women\". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013.\nThe increasing prevalence of shengnü in China has boosted the number of shengnan – leftover men."
},
{
"ref": "2012, Fincher, Leta Hong (12 October 2012). \"OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; China's 'Leftover' Women\". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013",
"text": "In 2007, the Women’s Federation defined “leftover” women (sheng nu) as unmarried women over the age of 27 and China’s Ministry of Education added the term to its official lexicon."
},
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"ref": "2012, Robert L. Moore and Li Wei, \"Modern Love in China\", in Michele Antoinette Paludi, The Psychology of Love, volume 1, page 31",
"text": "Most of these parents come to this “marriage market” out of concern for their child being sheng nu (leftover women) or sheng nan (leftover men))—a rather stigmatized term for a growing number of young men and young women in their late twenties and early thirties who are well educated and career-minded but still single."
},
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"text": "2012, Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (August 21, 2012). \"Romance With Chinese Characteristics\". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-24.\nWomen, meanwhile, must be married by 27; after that they are branded sheng nu or “leftover women.” (This derogatory term — whose prefix “sheng” is the same word used in “leftover food” — was listed as a new word in 2007 by the Chinese Ministry of Education)."
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"ref": "2013, Liza Mundy, The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Our Culture, page 211",
"text": "In China, the growing ranks of educated unmarried females are referred to as sheng nu, or “left—over women.”",
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"ref": "2013, \"BE MY KEPT WOMAN - actress asked to 'name her price'\", Malaysia Chronicle (Wednesday, July 31, 2013)",
"text": "\"I'm definitely a 'sheng nu' (leftover woman). Women should learn to take it in their stride, and (realise) it's just a label that society gives us,\" Tsui said."
}
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"A woman in her mid- to late twenties and not yet married, particularly an unmarried successful businesswoman."
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"english": "office lady",
"word": "OL ()"
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"english": "Japanese career woman",
"roman": "kyaria ūman",
"word": "キャリアウーマン"
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"english": "single, seventies (1970s), and stuck",
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"roman": "tanə mnacʻac",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "տանը մնացած"
},
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"alt": "sing⁶ neoi⁵⁻²",
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"word": "ylijäämänainen"
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"note": "売れ残り (うれのこり, urenokori) (spinster, lit.: \"leftover goods\")",
"sense": "leftover woman"
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"roman": "oldeu miseu",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "올드 미스"
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"roman": "nevostrébovannaja žénščina",
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"text": "2010 Schott, Ben (15 March 2010). \"Leftover Ladies & 3S Women\". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013.\nThe increasing prevalence of shengnü in China has boosted the number of shengnan – leftover men."
},
{
"ref": "2012, Fincher, Leta Hong (12 October 2012). \"OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; China's 'Leftover' Women\". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013",
"text": "In 2007, the Women’s Federation defined “leftover” women (sheng nu) as unmarried women over the age of 27 and China’s Ministry of Education added the term to its official lexicon."
},
{
"ref": "2012, Robert L. Moore and Li Wei, \"Modern Love in China\", in Michele Antoinette Paludi, The Psychology of Love, volume 1, page 31",
"text": "Most of these parents come to this “marriage market” out of concern for their child being sheng nu (leftover women) or sheng nan (leftover men))—a rather stigmatized term for a growing number of young men and young women in their late twenties and early thirties who are well educated and career-minded but still single."
},
{
"text": "2012, Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (August 21, 2012). \"Romance With Chinese Characteristics\". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-24.\nWomen, meanwhile, must be married by 27; after that they are branded sheng nu or “leftover women.” (This derogatory term — whose prefix “sheng” is the same word used in “leftover food” — was listed as a new word in 2007 by the Chinese Ministry of Education)."
},
{
"ref": "2013, Liza Mundy, The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Our Culture, page 211",
"text": "In China, the growing ranks of educated unmarried females are referred to as sheng nu, or “left—over women.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, \"BE MY KEPT WOMAN - actress asked to 'name her price'\", Malaysia Chronicle (Wednesday, July 31, 2013)",
"text": "\"I'm definitely a 'sheng nu' (leftover woman). Women should learn to take it in their stride, and (realise) it's just a label that society gives us,\" Tsui said."
}
],
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"A woman in her mid- to late twenties and not yet married, particularly an unmarried successful businesswoman."
],
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"english": "single, seventies (1970s), and stuck",
"word": "3S"
},
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"word": "spinster"
},
{
"word": "catherinette"
},
{
"word": "shengnü"
},
{
"word": "shengnu"
},
{
"word": "sheng nü"
}
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tanə mnacʻac",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "տանը մնացած"
},
{
"alt": "sing⁶ neoi⁵⁻²",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "剩女"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shèngnǚ",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "剩女"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "ylijäämänainen"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "売れ残り (うれのこり, urenokori) (spinster, lit.: \"leftover goods\")",
"sense": "leftover woman"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "oldeu miseu",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "올드 미스"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "as used in the media",
"roman": "nevostrébovannaja žénščina",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "невостре́бованная же́нщина"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stáraja déva",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ста́рая де́ва"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "leftover woman",
"word": "kalık"
}
],
"word": "sheng nu"
}
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