女 (nǚ): meaning and stroke order
女 (nǚ) means female, woman, daughter, old variant of 汝.
女
- Simplified
- 女
- Traditional
- 女 (same form)
- Pinyin
- nǚ · rǔ
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Stroke order of 女
女
- nǚ female; woman
- rǔ old variant of 汝[ru3]
- 3 strokes
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Meaning of 女
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nǚ
- female
- woman
- daughter
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rǔ
- old variant of 汝[ru3]
Radical and structure
- 女
- Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 3 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 女
- 女人 nǚ rén woman
- 女儿 nǚ ér daughter
- 女神 nǚ shén goddess; nymph
- 女士 nǚ shì lady; madam
- 孙女 sūn nǚ son's daughter; granddaughter
- 女孩 nǚ hái girl; lass
- 侍女 shì nǚ maid
- 女孩子 nǚ hái zi girl
- 女朋友 nǚ péng you girlfriend
女 in our stories
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离开那天，一个小女孩送给她一张画，画上是一个投篮的女老师，旁边写着她学会的第一个英语单词。
líkāi nà tiān yí gè xiǎo nǚhái sònggěi tā yì zhāng huà huà shàng shì yí gè tóulán de nǚ lǎoshī pángbiān xiě zhe tā xuéhuì de dì-yī gè Yīngyǔ dāncí
On the day she left, a little girl gave her a drawing of a woman teacher taking a shot, with the first English word the girl had learned written beside it.
From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5
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梁山伯为人老实，始终没有发现祝英台是女的。有同学开玩笑说英台长得太秀气了，他还替“兄弟”生气。
Liáng Shānbó wéirén lǎoshi shǐzhōng méiyǒu fāxiàn Zhù Yīngtái shì nǚ de yǒu tóngxué kāi wánxiào shuō Yīngtái zhǎng de tài xiùqi le tā hái tì xiōngdì shēngqì
Honest Liang Shanbo never realised Zhu Yingtai was a woman. When a classmate joked that Yingtai looked too delicate, he even got angry on his "brother's" behalf.
From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 女
- English on the basketball court HSK 5
- The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).