男
(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #591 U+7537
How 男 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Someone who can work 力 the farm 田
How to remember it
male · Heisig RSH #741
田 rice field + 力 power
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 男
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大男子主义者 | dà nán zǐ zhǔ yì zhě | male chauvinist |
| 大男子主义 | dà nán zǐ zhǔ yì | male chauvinism |
| 大男人主义 | dà nán rén zhǔ yì | male chauvinism |
| 男主外，女主内 | nán zhǔ wài , nǚ zhǔ nèi | men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom) |
| 阿尔法男 | ā ěr fǎ nán | alpha male |
| 男性主义 | nán xìng zhǔ yì | masculism |
| 大男人 | dà nán rén | very masculine guy; a real man; (used ironically) a grown man |
| 男人家 | nán rén jia | a man (rather than a woman) |
| 男子气 | nán zǐ qì | manly; masculine |
| 男子单打 | nán zǐ dān dǎ | men's singles (in tennis etc) |
| 男性化 | nán xìng huà | to masculinize; masculinization |
| 男中音 | nán zhōng yīn | baritone |
| 理工男 | lǐ gōng nán | geek; techie |
| 男管家 | nán guǎn jiā | butler; majordomo; housekeeper |
| 男高音 | nán gāo yīn | tenor (singing voice); a tenor |
| 男人不坏，女人不爱 | nán rén bù huài , nǚ rén bù ài | women love bad guys |
| 一男半女 | yī nán bàn nǚ | (idiom) a son or daughter; a child |
| 金正男 | Jīn Zhèng nán | Kim Jong-nam (1971-2017), the eldest son of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4] |
| 男主角 | nán zhǔ jué | male lead; male protagonist |
| 男大 | nán dà | (slang) male university student; male college student |