女 nǚ

1. nǚ adjective female; feminine
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: A bound form in modern Chinese (ABC 'nǚ' 1; Kroll 2015 '女' 1; Unihan '女')
2. nǚ noun female
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A bound form in modern Chinese (ABC 'nǚ' 1; Kroll 2015 '女' 1; Unihan '女')
3. nǚ noun Kangxi radical 38
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Woman (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Unihan '女')
4. nǜ verb to marry off a daughter
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 女 is synonymous with 嫁女 in this sense (Kroll 2015 '女' nǜ)
5. nǚ noun daughter
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 女 is synonymous with 女儿 in this sense. It is a bound form in modern Chinese (ABC 'nǚ' 2; Kroll 2015 '女' 2).
6. rǔ pronoun you; thou
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A variant of 汝, used as a second person pronoun in Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 77).
7. nǚ adjective soft; feminine
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '女' 3)
8. nǚ proper noun the Maiden lunar lodging
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '女' 4)
9. rǔ pronoun you
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a variant of 汝 second person personal pronoun (Kroll 2015 '女' rǔ)

Contained in

• 女婴(女嬰) female baby
• 女装(女裝) women's clothes
• 烟花女(煙花女) a prostitute
• 室女 unmarried lady; virgin; Virgo (star sign)
• 欺男霸女 to oppress the people; to act tyrannically
• 药叉女(藥叉女) yakshini
• 男女平等 equality of the sexes
• 外孙女儿(外孫女兒) granddaughter (one's daughter's daughter)
• 女娲(女媧) Nu Wa
• 男扮女装(男扮女裝) man dressed as a woman
• 少女峰 Jungfrau, peak in Switzerland
• 男大当婚，女大当嫁(男大當婚，女大當嫁) for a man and woman to be an age suitable to marry
• 女杰(女傑) woman of distinction; a woman to be admired or respected
• 女性主义(女性主義) feminism
• 吧女 barmaid
• 女同 a lesbian
• 信女 a female lay Buddhist
• 女性 a female; the female sex
• 女厕(女廁) ladies washroom; ladies toilet
• 父女 father and daughter
• 中华全国妇女联合会(中華全國婦女聯合會) All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949)
• 嫁女 to marry off a daughter
• 采女 a title for an imperial concubine ; Cai Nu
• 生儿育女(生兒育女) to bear and raise children
• 仕女 court lady; palace maid, traditional painting of beautiful women
• 妇女福利(婦女福利) women’s services
• 女强人(女強人) successful career woman; able woman
• 仙女座星系 Andromeda galaxy M31
• 女星 female star; famous actress
• 女房东(女房東) landlady
• 女修道院 convent
• 女店员(女店員) salesgirl; female shop assistant
• 佔人妻女 to take somebody's wife and daughters
• 妇女主任(婦女主任) director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
• 女性贬抑(女性貶抑) misogyny
• 男女之际(男女之際) the boundary between male and female
• 厌女症(厭女症) misogyny
• 女友 girlfriend
• 黄花幼女(黃花幼女) maiden; virgin
• 男盗女娼(男盜女娼) the men steal and the women work as prostitutes
• 女孩儿(女孩兒) a girl
• 女神蛤 geoduck (Panopea abrupta); elephant trunk clam
• 士为知己者死，女为悦己者容(士為知己者死，女為悅己者容) a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
• 舞女 a female dancer

Also contained in

列女传 、 女真语 、 四大美女 、 善德女王 、 圣女贞德 、 有女同车 、 女红

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 《女部》 Nǚ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 287
• 卷七十　表第八:　屬國表 Volume 70 Tables 8: Vassal States History of Liao 遼史 — count: 87
• 卷三百〇三 列傳第一百九十一 列女三 Volume 303 Biographies 191: Exemplary Women 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 75
• 卷三百〇一 列傳第一百八十九 列女一 Volume 301 Biographies 189: Exemplary Women 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 73
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 66
• 卷三百〇二 列傳第一百九十 列女二 Volume 302 Biographies 190: Exemplary Women 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 63
• 卷五十七　志第三十八:　百官三 內命婦 宮人女職 東宮官屬 親王府屬 太后兩宮官屬 大興府 諸京留守司諸京城宮苑提舉等職 按察司 諸路總管府、諸府、諸節鎮、防禦、刺史、縣鎮等職 諸轉運泉谷等職 諸府鎮兵馬等職 諸猛安部族及群牧等職 Volume 57 Treatises 38: Official Posts 3 - Women of the Inner Court; Palace Women with Official Positions; East Palace officials; Prince's Residence Subordinates; Officials of the Empress Dowager's Two Palaces; Daxing Prefecture; Officials in Charge of Offices, Palaces, and Parks in the Capital; Surveillance Commissions; Circuit Inspectors; Prefecture Governments; Town Administration; Defenses; Magistrates; County and Town Officials; Transportation and Grain Officials; Officials in Charge of Military Forces in the Prefectures; Officals in Charge of Pacifying Savage Tribes and Pastoral Peoples History of Jin 金史 — count: 62
• 卷一百二十一 列傳第九 公主 Volume 121 Biographies 9: Princesses History of Ming 明史 — count: 61
• 卷二百〇一　　列傳第八十八: 列女二 Volume 201 Biographies 88: Exemplary Women 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 56
• 卷十三　　列傳第一:　后妃上 Volume 13 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 55

Collocations

• 逆女 (逆女) 紀裂繻來逆女 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 8
• 女曰 (女曰) 女曰鷄鳴 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧女曰鷄鳴 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - Nu Yue Ji Ming — count: 7
• 女殷商 (女殷商) 咨女殷商 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧蕩 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Dang — count: 7
• 咨女 (咨女) 咨女殷商 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧蕩 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Dang — count: 7
• 静女 (靜女) 靜女 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧靜女 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Jing Nu — count: 5
• 贯女 (貫女) 三歲貫女 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧魏‧碩鼠 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Shou Shu — count: 3
• 去女 (去女) 逝將去女 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧魏‧碩鼠 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Shou Shu — count: 3
• 女心 (女心) 女心傷悲 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧豳‧七月 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Qi Yue — count: 3
• 士女 (士女) 以穀我士女 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧甫田 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Fu Tian — count: 3
• 女仳离 (女仳離) 有女仳離 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧王‧中谷有蓷 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wang - Zhong Gu You Tui — count: 3