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女士 (nǚ shì): meaning and stroke order

女士 (nǚ shì) means lady, madam, 个,位, Miss, Ms.

女士

Simplified
女士
Traditional
女士 (same form)
Pinyin
nǚ shì

Stroke order of 女士

女

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

Stroke by stroke

士

  • Shì surname Shi
  • shì member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old)
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 女士

  1. nǚ shì
    • lady
    • madam
    • CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
    • Miss
    • Ms

Radicals of the characters

女
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 3 strokes
士
Radical 士 (Kangxi radical 33) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 丄

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.

女士 in our stories

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  • 有一天,一位戴眼镜的女士吃了一口,皱着眉头说:“面糊太厚了,酱也太咸。”

    yǒu yì tiān yí wèi dài yǎnjìng de nǚshì chī le yì kǒu zhòu zhe méitóu shuō miànhù tài hòu le jiàng yě tài xián

    One day a woman in glasses took a bite, frowned and said, "The batter's too thick, and the sauce is too salty."

    From the story A second chance HSK 5

  • 这时,旁边一位女士的电脑出了问题,她马上要给客户做演示,急得满头大汗。

    zhè shí pángbiān yí wèi nǚshì de diànnǎo chū le wèntí tā mǎshàng yào gěi kèhù zuò yǎnshì jí de mǎntóu dàhàn

    Just then the laptop of a woman beside him went wrong. She had a client presentation any minute and was dripping with sweat.

    From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6

  • 一天下午,一位中年女士抱着一个布包走进店里。布包里是一只摔成了五块的青花碗。

    yì tiān xiàwǔ yí wèi zhōngnián nǚshì bào zhe yí gè bùbāo zǒu jìn diàn lǐ bùbāo lǐ shì yì zhī shuāi chéng le wǔ kuài de qīnghuā wǎn

    One afternoon a middle-aged woman came in carrying a cloth bundle. Inside was a blue-and-white bowl broken into five pieces.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 女士

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).