小姐 (xiǎo jie)

Character breakdown

• 小 (xiǎo) · 3 strokes

  Depicts three small dots, representing the meaning "small". Originally the same character as 少. The small dots possibly represent grains of sand (沙).

• 姐 (jiě) · 8 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.