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

• 女友 girlfriend
• 女净房(女淨房) ladies; ladies restroom
• 女色 female charms; femininity
• 阻街女郎 streetwalker
• 外孙女(外孫女) daughter's daughter; granddaughter
• 男女 male and female
• 娇娇女(嬌嬌女) pampered girl from an affluent family
• 药叉女(藥叉女) yakshini
• 女子无才便是德(女子無才便是德) a woman's virtue is to have no talent
• 女演员(女演員) actress
• 女汉子(女漢子) masculine woman
• 宅女 female geek; female nerd; otaku girl
• 仕女 court lady; palace maid, traditional painting of beautiful women
• 处女作(處女作) first publication; maiden work
• 九天玄女 Xuan Nü
• 三个女人一台戏(三個女人一臺戲) three women are enough for a drama
• 吉祥天女 Laksmi
• 男欢女爱(男歡女愛) passionate love
• 好男不跟女斗(好男不跟女鬥) a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk
• 独生女(獨生女) an only daughter
• 酒托女 woman hired to lure men to high-priced bars
• 月女神 Moon Goddess
• 孤男寡女 a single man and a single woman; bachelors
• 黄花幼女(黃花幼女) maiden; virgin
• 女朋友 girlfriend
• 女儿红(女兒紅) kind of Chinese wine
• 女票 girlfriend
• 吧女 barmaid
• 王女 the daughter of a king; a princess
• 消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约(消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
• 厌女症(厭女症) misogyny
• 宝藏天女(寶藏天女) Laksmi
• 妇女主任(婦女主任) director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
• 仙女棒 sparkler (hand-held firework)
• 浣女 washerwoman
• 姹女(奼女) beautiful girl ; mercury
• 妻女 wives and daughters
• 浪女 loose woman
• 女童 small girl
• 女眷 the females in a family; womenfolk
• 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)
• 男左女右 the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying)
• 乱搞男女关系(亂搞男女關係) to be promiscuous; to sleep around
• 姦妇女(姦婦女) rape
• 女优(女優) actress
• 烈女 a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death

Also contained in

学法女 、 魔女 、 儿女英雄传 、 还乡女 、 善德女王

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
• 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
• 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
• 二女 (二女) 觀厥刑于二女 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — 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
• 嗟女 (嗟女) 于嗟女兮 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — 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