女 (nǚ)
female/woman
How 女 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Traditional
- 女
- Simplified
- 女 (unchanged)
女 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- nǚ
- female; woman; daughter
- rǔ
- archaic variant of 汝[ru3]
Common words using 女
- 女人 nǚrén
- woman
- 女孩 nǚhái
- girl; lass
- 美女 měinǚ
- beautiful woman
- 兒女 érnǚ
- children; sons and daughters
- 女兒 nǚér
- daughter
- 女友 nǚyǒu
- girlfriend
- 女士 nǚshì
- lady; madam; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- 女婿 nǚxu
- daughter's husband; son-in-law
- 女媧 nǚwā
- Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
- 女子 nǚzǐ
- woman; female
- 女性 nǚxìng
- woman; the female sex
- 女星 nǚxīng
- female star; famous actress
女 in a sentence
那個女生是我的同學。
Nà ge nǚshēng shì wǒ de tóngxué.
“That girl is my classmate.”
How common is 女?
女 is the 224th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 58.2% of all running text.
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