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Kanji Detail for 女 - "woman, young woman, daughter"

女

  • Meaning

    女 means "woman, young woman, daughter."

    1. Woman - A female person.

    2. Daughter - A girl; a female child.

    3. Young woman - An unmarried young woman.

    4. Delicate - Something small and fragile.

    5. You - A pronoun meaning "you."

    6. To marry off - To give in marriage; to send as a bride.

  • Words using 女

    • 女子 じょし Listen woman; girl
    • 女性 じょせい Listen woman; female; feminine gender
    • 彼女 かのじょ Listen she; her; girlfriend
    • 男女 だんじょ Listen men and women; man and woman; both sexes
    • 女優 じょゆう Listen actress; female actor
    • 長女 ちょうじょ Listen eldest daughter; first-born daughter
    • 女子大 じょしだい Listen women's college; women's university
    • 女王 じょおう Listen queen; female champion

  • Four-character idioms with 女

    • 女人禁制 にょにんきんせい Listen prohibition on women entering (usu. for religious reasons); no female admission
    • 男尊女卑 だんそんじょひ Listen male domination of women; male chauvinism; subjection of women
    • 老若男女 ろうにゃくなんにょ Listen men and women of all ages
    • 善男善女 ぜんなんぜんにょ Listen pious men and women; religious people; the faithful
    • 女尊男卑 じょそんだんぴ Listen placing women above men
    • 紳士淑女 しんししゅくじょ Listen ladies and gentlemen

  • Origin of 女

    A pictograph of a kneeling figure with hands folded — the formal seated posture of women in the oracle-bone age. The character has knelt for three thousand years; the world around it moved.

    How to remember it: A figure kneeling with folded hands — the old formal posture, frozen into a character.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: woman, young woman, daughter
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read おみな, によ, もとめ, をみな)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 女

    Given names 女(おみな)Listen 女(によ)Listen 女(もとめ)Listen 女(をみな)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    woman; female

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali)

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    female; woman; daughter

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    woman, girl; female

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Counterpart to 男 (man). | A star name. One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions. | Giving a daughter in marriage is called 女. | Same as 汝. A term addressing "me."

  • Onyomi

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    jo(ジョ) ジョ

    nyo(ニョ) ニョ

    nyoh(ニョウ) ニョウ

  • Kunyomi

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    me(め) め

    on'na(おんな) おんな

  • Strokes

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    3 strokes

  • Radical

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    女 (onna・onnahen)

  • Related Keywords

    woman daughter young woman you delicate female give in marriage marry small or weak thing bride feminine fragile gender gentle girl goddess grandmother lady maiden mild motherhood niece queen sisterhood soft tender wed

Sentences including 女

  • Her dress looked cheap.

  • She spends a lot of money on clothes.

  • Was she able to write a report?

  • She made much use of milk in her cooking.

  • What a kind girl she is !

  • She gave me a present.

  • Are you sure you want to put your life in her hands?

  • She got a pair of shoes from father.

  • She has been in hospital for a month.

  • The police have traced her to paris.

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