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女
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Definitions
- 1. female
- 2. woman
- 3. daughter
Example Sentences
1 shown國際婦 女 節快樂！
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Words Containing 女
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story)
(Internet slang) spoiled city girl from a rich family
slave girl
the bride's side (of a wedding)
successful career woman
girl
young girl
pampered girl from an affluent family
woman
adopted daughter
female suffering absence or atresia of vagina (as birth defect)
natural child
Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901)
sex-crazed woman
palace maid
sister's daughter
dainty and delicate girl
sparkler (hand-held firework)
talented man and beautiful woman
to celebrate a wedding
men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius)
virgin female
girl; lass
landlady
Jurchen language
crenelated parapet wall
young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
a couple engaged in an illicit love affair
female singer (archaic)
son's daughter
a policewoman
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
everybody
schoolgirl
a lesbian (coll.)
nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
maiden
the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying)
female virgin
empress
see 乾物女|干物女[gān wù nu:3]
(neologism) (slang) it's none of your business (imitation of an accented pronunciation of 與你無關|与你无关[yǔ nǐ wú guān])
womanly temperament
daughter
see 男女同校[nán nu:3 tóng xiào]
fox lady
daughter's husband; son-in-law
(slang) to pick up girls
women's singles (in tennis, badminton etc)
soprano
three women makes a crowd
talented girl
misogyny
mother and daughter
maiden voyage
privet (genus Ligustrum)
supporting a wife and children
talented man and beautiful woman
second daughter
noble lady
daughter
(Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families
foster daughter
lady
The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康[wén kāng]
lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom)
feminism
International Women's Day (March 8)
Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
to feminize
Queen's University (Belfast)
woman hired to lure men to high-priced bars
geoduck (Panopea abrupta)
fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
woman
great-granddaughter
Vega, brightest star in constellation Lyra 天琴星座
women love bad guys
washerwoman
schoolgirl
children; sons and daughters
father and daughter
pit babe
\leftover woman\ (successful career woman who has remained single)
women's rights
fairy
girlfriend
all kinds of people
prostitute
When the girl smiles, the matchmaker's job is half done. (idiom)
girl
when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
actress
lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom)
girl
Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
court lady
female general
women (in general)
bridesmaid
Moon Goddess
maiden; unmarried woman
father and daughter
to marry off a daughter
maid
women's movement
passionate love (idiom)
wife
lady
heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body
Xuan Nü, a fairy in Chinese mythology
woman from a respectable family
woman
if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
(of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
niece
virgin; maiden
mature and sophisticated woman
daughter's daughter
ladies bicycle
female baby
to bear and raise children
(of a man) to dress as a woman (idiom)
cherry tomato
(coll.) the girl of your dreams
Statue of Liberty
son's daughter's husband
nyotaimori or \body sushi\, Japanese practice of serving sushi on the body of a naked woman
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English
female companion
wife
one-child policy
(dialect) pretty girl
little girl (of toddler age)
my daughter (humble)
three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
female servant; maid
women's suffrage
an illegitimate child
woman
inheritress
woman
beautiful woman
(female) maid
female suffering absence or atresia of vagina (as birth defect)
Andromeda galaxy M31
an only daughter
crenelated parapet wall
woman of distinction
(idiom) to have had relationships with many women
to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施[xī shī], Wang Zhaojun 王昭君[wáng zhāo jūn], Diaochan 貂蟬|貂蝉[diāo chán] and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环[yáng yù huán]
kind of Chinese wine
great-granddaughter
(slang) girlfriend
loose woman
housekeeper
boys and girls
maiden; unmarried woman
female singer (archaic)
men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom)
male-female
a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
the feminine arts (e.g. needlework)
International Women's Day (March 8)
lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom)
women's volleyball
heroine (of a novel or film)
materialistic woman
queen
beautiful woman
Ladies first!
policewoman
great nebula in Andromeda or Andromeda galaxy M31
duchess
brother's daughter's husband
scam girl
KTV hostess
maiden
woman
single girl who is not interested in relationships, living a lackadaisical life (loanword from Japanese \himono onna\)
fairy
valkyrie
women's doubles (in tennis, badminton etc)
hairdresser (female)
masculine woman
ladies washroom
Jungfrau, peak in Switzerland
empress
sister's daughter's husband
daughter's husband; son-in-law
female genital mutilation
spinster
to regard men as superior to women (idiom)
children
woman
vulva
lay practitioners of Buddhism
blouse
niece (sister's daughter)
misogyny
Virgo (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
to be promiscuous
streetwalker
children
stepchildren
son's daughter
a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death
wise and virtuous woman
girlfriend
young woman
beautiful woman
Vega (star)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87)
prostitute; hooker
women's clothes
(derog.) woman
female star
woman from an ordinary family
director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
stepdaughter
goddess
man-woman connection
call girl
woman
beautiful woman
maiden
salesgirl
stewardess
hymen
senior palace maiden
witch
unmarried lady
female charms
convent
Andromeda (constellation)
Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金[hòu jīn] and Qing Dynasty
lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
attendants of the Daoist immortals
fujoshi (woman who likes manga about male homosexual love) (derived from Japanese 腐女子 \fujoshi\)
an only child
witch
a single man and a single woman
feminism
woman
SELENE, Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft, launched in 2007
the females in a family
illegitimate child
The Goddess, 1934 silent film about a Shanghai prostitute, directed by 吳永剛|吴永刚[wú yǒng gāng]
mythological daughter of Fiery Emperor 炎帝[yán dì] who turned into bird Jingwei 精衛|精卫[jīng wèi] after drowning
Andromeda constellation (galaxy) M31
matron
beautiful girl
adopted daughter
name of a peak by the Three Gorges 長江三峽|长江三峡[cháng jiāng sān xiá]
mother and daughter
equality of the sexes
grand niece
(name of a constellation)
woman
nüshu writing, a phonetic syllabary for Yao ethnic group 瑤族|瑶族[yáo zú] dialect designed and used by women in Jiangyong county 江永縣|江永县[jiāng yǒng xiàn] in southern Hunan
male-female
barmaid
hostess
first publication; maiden work
see 曼荷蓮學院|曼荷莲学院[màn hé lián xué yuàn]
bride's family (in marriage)
coeducation
men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb)
children; sons and daughters
wife's sister's children
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
eldest daughter
young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
to oppress the people
girlfriend
small girl
All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949)
see 黃花閨女|黄花闺女[huáng huā guī nu:3]
female geek
prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
Andromeda galaxy M31
daughter of a male cousin via female line
The White Haired Girl (1950), one of the first PRC films
misogyny