女
Translingual
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Han character
女 (radical 38, 女+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 女 (V), four-corner 40400)
- Kangxi radical #38, ⼥.
Derived glyphs
- Index:Chinese radical/女
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 254, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6036
- Dae Jaweon: page 516, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1023, character 23
- Unihan data for U+5973
Chinese
Glyph origin
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (女) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 拿 | *rnaː |
| 拏 | *rnaː |
| 詉 | *rnaː |
| 蒘 | *rnaː, *na |
| 笯 | *rnaː, *naː, *naːs |
| 挐 | *rnaː, *na |
| 絮 | *rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas |
| 呶 | *rnaːw |
| 怓 | *rnaːw |
| 帑 | *n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː |
| 奴 | *naː |
| 砮 | *naː, *naːʔ |
| 駑 | *naː |
| 孥 | *naː |
| 努 | *naːʔ |
| 弩 | *naːʔ |
| 怒 | *naːʔ, *naːs |
| 袽 | *na |
| 帤 | *na |
| 女 | *naʔ, *nas |
| 籹 | *naʔ |
| 恕 | *hnjas |
| 如 | *nja, *njas |
| 茹 | *nja, *njaʔ, *njas |
| 洳 | *nja, *njas |
| 鴽 | *nja |
| 蕠 | *nja |
| 汝 | *njaʔ |
| 肗 | *njaʔ |
Pictogram (象形) : a woman with breasts kneeling or standing. In modern form turned on left side: enclosed area is remnant of left breast (character's left, depicted woman's right), while right breast has disappeared. Graphically cognate to 母 (mǔ, “mother”), which has developed similarly, but also includes dots for nipples and has retained both breasts.
Etymology 1
| simp. and trad. |
女 | |
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| alt. forms | 𠨰 | |
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nja-ŋ/k (“woman”).
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
女
- woman
- Antonyms: 男 (nán)
- (for people) female
- daughter (Classifier: 個／个 c; 粒 c)
- (Cantonese) girl; young female (Classifier: 條／条 c; 班 c)
- (Cantonese, slang) girlfriend (Classifier: 條／条 c)
- (Cantonese, card games) queen (Classifier: 張／张 c; 隻／只 c)
- (astronomy) the Girl (a Chinese constellation near Aquarius, 10th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and part of the Black Turtle)
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms from 女
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Pronunciation 2
Definitions
女
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 女 – see 汝 (“you”). (This character, 女, is a variant form of 汝.) |
Japanese
Kanji
女
Readings
Compounds
Compounds
- 彼女 (kanojo): lit. she; girlfriend
- 王女 (ōjo), 王女 (ōnyo): princess
- 女郎花 (ominaeshi): Patrinia
- 女親 (onnaoya): female parent
- 女形 (onnagata): male actor in female role of kabuki
- 女心 (onnagokoro): woman's mind
- 女手 (onnade): female worker
- 女友達 (onnatomodachi): girlfriend, female friend
- 孝女 (kōjo): filial daughter
- 工女 (kōjo): female worker
- 皇女 (kōjo): imperial princess
- 女医 (joi): doctoress
- 女王 (joō), 女王 (jōō), 女王 (nyoō): queen
- 女系 (jokei): woman-succession
- 女傑 (joketsu): brave woman
- 女権 (joken): woman rights
- 女史 (joshi): Ms.
- 女中 (jochū): maid
- 処女 (shojo): virgin, maiden
- 女子 (joshi): girl
- 女児 (joji): female infant
- 女性 (josei): woman
- 女声 (josei): female voice
- 女婿 (josei): son-in-law
- 女帝 (jotei): empress
- 女優 (joyū): actress
- 女流 (joryū): female
- 女郎 (jorō): prostitute
- 仙女 (sennyo), 仙女 (senjo): fairy, nymph, elf
- 息女 (sokujo): (honorific) daughter
- 女房 (nyōbō): wife
- 女官 (nyokan): court lady
- 女将 (nyoshō): mistress, hostess
- 女人 (nyonin): woman
- 女神 (megami): goddess
- 美女 (bijo): beauty, belle
- 魔女 (majo): witch
- 雪女 (yuki onna): a snow woman
- 痴女 (chijo): slut, a female libertine
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
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| 女 |
| おみな Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi |
From Old Japanese. /womi1na/ invalid IPA characters (1) → /womina/ → /omina/. The initial /wo/ expressed "small, youth" and contrasted with /o/ "grown, old" (as in 嫗 (omina) "old woman"). The medial /mi/ is cognate with 女 (me, “female, woman”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
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| 女 |
| おんな Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi |
From earlier /womina/: /womina/ → /woɴna/ → /oɴna/.
Pronunciation
Noun
女 (hiragana おんな, rōmaji onna, historical hiragana をんな)
- a woman
- 1999 July 5, “斬首の美女 [The Beheading Beauty]”, in BOOSTER 3 (in Japanese), Konami:
- その美貌とはうらはらに、カタナで数多くの首をはねてきた女。
- Sono bibō to wa urahara ni, katana de kazuōku no kuchi o hanetekita onna.
- A lady who has decapitated a great many with her katana, which is in stark contrast to her beautiful appearance.
- その美貌とはうらはらに、カタナで数多くの首をはねてきた女。
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Usage notes
This has superseded omina, and is now one of the standard Japanese words for woman.
Antonyms
Etymology 3
| Kanji in this term |
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| 女 |
| め Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi |
From Old Japanese. /me1/ invalid IPA characters (1) → /me/
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
- female
- woman
- wife
- circa 890: Taketori Monogatari,page 3:
- 女（め）の女にあづけてやしなはす。
- circa 890: Taketori Monogatari,page 3:
Usage notes
Used more in compounds than on its own.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 端女 (hashitame): a servant girl
- 姫 (hime): a princess
- 娘 (musume, “daughter”)
- 郎女 (iratsume): (archaic) an ancient term of endearment for referring to a woman or girl
- 雌花 (mebana): a female flower, having only a pistil and no stamens
- 雌豚 (mebuta): a sow, a female pig
- 女滝 (medaki), 雌滝 (medaki): in a waterfall with two cataracts, the smaller of the two
- 女竹 (medaki), 雌竹 (medaki): a type of low-growing bamboo, Pleioblastus simonii
- 雌鳥 (medori), 雌鳥 (mendori), 雌鶏 (medori), 雌鶏 (mendori): a hen; a female bird
- 雌刈萱 (megarukaya): a type of grass, Themeda japonica
- 女神 (megami): a goddess
- 女木 (megi), 雌木 (megi): a female tree; the lower or receiving piece of wood in a join
- 女君 (megimi): polite term for another person's wife or daughter
- 雌蛭木 (mehirugi): a type of mangrove, Kandelia obovata
- 女日芝 (mehishiba), 雌日芝 (mehishiba): crabgrass, Digitaria ciliaris
- 姪 (mei): a niece
- 牝鹿 (meka): a doe, a female deer
- 女子 (meko): woman and child; a girl
- 婚く (memaku): to get married
- 女女しい (memeshī), 女々しい (memeshī): unmanly; effeminate; sissy
- 女波 (menami): the smaller waves
- 雌螺子 (meneji), 雌捻子 (meneji): a nut or other item threaded to receive a screw
- 乳母 (menoto), 傅 (menoto): a nanny; a wetnurse; a foster parent
- 女の子 (me no ko): a girl; a woman
- 夫婦 (meoto): man and wife, a married couple
- 女親 (meoya): (archaic) a mother
- 雌蕊 (meshibe), 雌蘂 (meshibe), 雌蕋 (meshibe): a pistil
- 雌鹿 (meshika), 雌鹿 (mejika), 牝鹿 (meshika), 牝鹿 (mejika): a doe, a female deer
- 雌 (mesu), 牝 (mesu): a female animal
- 娶る (metoru): to get married
- 牝馬 (meuma), 牝馬 (mema): a mare, a female horse
- 牝牛 (meushi), めうし: a cow, female cattle
- 乙女 (otome): a girl, a virgin
- 姑 (shūtome): a mother-in-law
- 浮かれ女 (ukareme), 浮女 (ukareme): a female entertainer or prostitute
- 嫁 (yome): a bride
See also
References
- Horiuchi, Hideaki; Ken Akiyama (1997) Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
女 (eumhun 계집 녀 (gyejip nyeo), South Korea 계집 여 (gyejip yeo))
Vietnamese
Han character
女 (nữ)
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