女
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女 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 女 (V), four-corner 40400, composition ⿻𡿨丆(GJKV) or ⿻𡿨𠂇(HT))
Historical forms of the character 女 | ||||
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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 |
Old Chinese | |
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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. Compare Egyptian 𓁐.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nja-ŋ/k (“woman”). Compare Tibetan ཉག་མོ (nyag mo, “woman”) (Hill, 2019).
Pronunciation 2 is an exoactive derivation of pronunciation 1 (Schuessler, 2007).
Variety | Location | 女 |
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Mandarin | Beijing | /ny²¹⁴/ |
Harbin | /ny²¹³/ | |
Tianjin | /nuei¹³/ /ny¹³/ | |
Jinan | /ȵy⁵⁵/ | |
Qingdao | /ny⁵⁵/ | |
Zhengzhou | /ny⁵³/ | |
Xi'an | /ny⁵³/ | |
Xining | /mji⁵³/ | |
Yinchuan | /ny⁵³/ | |
Lanzhou | /ȵy⁴⁴²/ | |
Ürümqi | /ȵy⁵¹/ | |
Wuhan | /y⁴²/ | |
Chengdu | /ȵy⁵³/ | |
Guiyang | /ni⁴²/ | |
Kunming | /ni⁵³/ | |
Nanjing | /ly²¹²/ | |
Hefei | /zz̩ʷ²⁴/ | |
Jin | Taiyuan | /ny⁵³/ |
Pingyao | /nzz̩ʷ⁵³/ ~子 /ȵy⁵³/ ~貓 | |
Hohhot | /ny⁵³/ | |
Wu | Shanghai | /ȵy²³/ |
Suzhou | /ȵy³¹/ | |
Hangzhou | /nz̩ʷ⁵³/ | |
Wenzhou | /ȵy³⁵/ | |
Hui | Shexian | /ny³⁵/ |
Tunxi | /ȵy²⁴/ | |
Xiang | Changsha | /ȵy⁴¹/ |
Xiangtan | /ȵy⁴²/ | |
Gan | Nanchang | /ȵy²¹³/ |
Hakka | Meixian | /n̩³¹/ |
Taoyuan | /ŋ̍³¹/ | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | /nøy²³/ |
Nanning | /ny²⁴/ | |
Hong Kong | /nøy¹³/ | |
Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /lu⁵³/ /li⁵³/ |
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /ny³²/ | |
Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /ny²¹/ | |
Shantou (Teochew) | /nɯŋ⁵³/ | |
Haikou (Hainanese) | /nu²¹³/ |
女
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 女朋友, 女友 | |
Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 女朋友 |
Taiwan | 女朋友, 女友, 馬子 humorous or derogatory | |
Singapore | 女朋友 | |
Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 女朋友 |
Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 女娃子, 女娃娃, 女娃兒, 盤子 |
Guilin | 𧊅 | |
Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 女朋友, 攀西 |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 女朋友, 女 |
Hong Kong | 女朋友, 女友, 女, 女女, 菜 derogatory | |
Taishan | 女朋友, 女 | |
Dongguan | 皮油 | |
Singapore (Guangfu) | 女朋友 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 女朋友 |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 細妹朋友, 女朋友 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 細妹朋友, 女朋友 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 細妹朋友, 女朋友 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 細妹朋友, 女朋友 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 妹子朋友, 女朋友 | |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 女朋友 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 女朋友 |
Shishi | 女朋友 | |
Taipei | 姼仔 GT | |
Penang (Hokkien) | 查某朋友 | |
Singapore (Hokkien) | 查某朋友 | |
Manila (Hokkien) | 女朋友, 查某朋友 | |
Chaozhou | 女朋友 | |
Haifeng | 女朋友 | |
Singapore (Teochew) | 查某朋友 | |
Leizhou | 女朋友 | |
Singapore (Hainanese) | 女朋友 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 女朋友 |
Suzhou | 女朋友 | |
Hangzhou | 女朋友 | |
Ningbo | 女朋友 | |
Zhoushan | 女朋友 | |
Xiang | Changsha | 妹子 |
Note | GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified) |
Variety | Location | Words |
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Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 疙瘩, 疙瘩包 |
Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 皮蛋, 十二 |
Zhengzhou | 十二, 圈 | |
Xi'an | 圈子 | |
Xuzhou | 皮蛋, 皮球, 球蛋 | |
Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 皮蛋, 圈子 |
Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 皮蛋, 蛋, 環, 婆婆 |
Guiyang | 蛋, 蛋蛋 | |
Liuzhou | 悶, 丘 | |
Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 皮蛋 |
Yangzhou | 皮蛋 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 女 |
Hong Kong | 女 | |
Taishan | 女 | |
Nanning | 敏 | |
Nanning (Tanka) | 文 | |
Wuzhou | 敏 | |
Yulin | 敏 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 皮蛋 |
Pengze | 箍 | |
Lichuan | 皮蛋 | |
Pingxiang | 蛋, 皮蛋架架 | |
Hakka | Yudu | 圈子 |
Huizhou | Jixi | 皮蛋 |
Jin | Taiyuan | 圈兒 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | Q, 卵 |
Shantou | 箍, 𡚸, 妹 | |
Puning | 箍 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 皮蛋 |
Shanghai (Chongming) | 皮蛋 | |
Suzhou | 蛋, 皮蛋 | |
Ningbo | 皮蛋, 蛋 |
女
For pronunciation and definitions of 女 – see 汝 (“you”). (This character is a variant form of 汝). |
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