女
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female; woman; daughter
3 strokes
Dict coverage rank #194 U+5973
How 女 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A woman turned to the side
How to remember it
woman · Heisig RSH #102
— as a component also called: woman
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 女 as their sound component
These characters all use 女 (nǚ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 女 sound component | nǚ | woman, girl; female |
| 汝 | rǔ | you |
| 钕 | nǚ | neodymium |
Words containing 女
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小女人 | xiǎo nǚ rén | dainty and delicate girl; concubine |
| 女人家 | nǚ rén jia | women (in general) |
| 女主人公 | nǚ zhǔ rén gōng | heroine (of a novel or film); main female protagonist |
| 女人气 | nǚ rén qì | womanly temperament; femininity; effeminate (of male); cowardly; sissy |
| 心动女 | xīn dòng nǚ | (coll.) the girl of your dreams |
| 女公子 | nǚ gōng zǐ | noble lady; (honorific) your daughter |
| 女性化 | nǚ xìng huà | to feminize; feminization |
| 女主人 | nǚ zhǔ rén | hostess; mistress |
| 黄花女儿 | huáng huā nǚ ér | see 黃花閨女|黄花闺女[huang2 hua1 gui1 nu:3] |
| 女性主义 | nǚ xìng zhǔ yì | feminism |
| 女子 | nǚ zǐ | woman; female |
| 子女 | zǐ nǚ | children; sons and daughters |
| 女人 | nǚ rén | woman |
| 女人 | nǚ ren | wife |
| 女大 | nǚ dà | (slang) female university student; female college student |
| 中女 | zhōng nǚ | middle-aged woman; (media term) middle-aged women regarded as a distinct social cohort |
| 女儿红 | nǚ ér hóng | kind of Chinese wine |
| 女生 | nǚ shēng | schoolgirl; female student; girl |
| 儿女 | ér nǚ | children; sons and daughters; a young man and a young woman (in love) |
| 女儿 | nǚ ér | daughter |