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Mythic Mandarin

女孩子 (nǚ hái zi): meaning and stroke order

女孩子 (nǚ hái zi) means girl.

女孩子

Simplified
女孩子
Traditional
女孩子 (same form)
Pinyin
nǚ hái zi

Stroke order of 女孩子

女

  • nǚ female; woman
  • rǔ old variant of 汝[ru3]
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

孩

  • hái (bound form) child
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 女孩子

  1. nǚ hái zi
    • girl

Radicals of the characters

女
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 3 strokes
孩
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 9 strokes · 子 on the left, 亥 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

女孩子 in our stories

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  • 公司的同事吴迪很爱开玩笑，他说女孩子连一个引体向上都做不了。

    gōngsī de tóngshì Wú Dí hěn ài kāi wánxiào tā shuō nǚháizi lián yí gè yǐntǐ xiàngshàng dōu zuò bú le

    Wu Di, a colleague at the office, loved to joke. He said girls couldn't even do a single pull-up.

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

  • 可是那时候，女孩子是不能进学堂的。她想了一个办法：打扮成男的，去杭州求学。

    kěshì nà shíhou nǚháizi shì bù néng jìn xuétáng de tā xiǎng le yí gè bànfǎ dǎban chéng nán de qù Hángzhōu qiúxué

    But in those days girls could not attend school. She came up with a plan: to dress as a man and go to Hangzhou to study.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 女孩子

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).