女
Meanings
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- 1.female
- 2.woman
- 3.daughter
- 1.old variant of 汝[rǔ]
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Wiktionary
- 1.woman; (only of humans in Standard Chinese) female
- 2.daughter (Classifier: 個／个 c; 粒 c)
- 3.girl; young female (Classifier: 條／条 c; 班 c)
- 4.girlfriend (Classifier: 條／条 c; 粒 mn-t)
- 5.queen (Classifier: 張／张 c; 隻／只 c)
- 6.the Girl (a Chinese constellation near Aquarius, 10th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and part of the Black Turtle)
- 7.to give one's daughter in marriage; to give as wife
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): a woman with folded arms kneeling or standing. In the modern form, the pictogram is reversed from the Oracle Bone script form, and is "facing" toward the right edge of the character: the enclosed area (bounded on the right side by the downward-curving second stroke of the modern form) is the remnant of the figure's right arm, while the figure's left arm has disappeared. Graphically cognate to 母 (mǔ, “mother”) and 毋, which has developed similarly, but also includes dots for distinction. Compare Egyptian 𓁐. Similar but unrelated to 卩, in which the person kneeling has unspecified gender. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *naq (“woman”). Compare Tibetan ཉག་མོ (nyag mo, “woman”) (Hill, 2019).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
她是女教师。
She is a teacher.
這是我女兒。
This is my daughter.
我女兒喜歡跳繩。
My daughter loves jumping rope.
男不坏，女不爱。
Nice guys finish last.
這是你的女兒嗎？
Is this your daughter?
您有孫子、孫女嗎?
Do you have grandchildren?
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