女
rǔ
Pinyin

Definition

女
 - 
nu:3
  1. female
  2. woman
  3. daughter
女
 - 
rǔ
  1. archaic variant of 汝[rǔ]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

女
nu:3
  1. 1 female
  2. 2 woman
  3. 3 daughter
女人
nu:3 rén
  1. 1 woman
女孩
nu:3 hái
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 lass
美女
měi nu:3
  1. 1 beautiful woman
仙女
xiān nu:3
  1. 1 fairy
儿女
ér nu:3
  1. 1 children
  2. 2 sons and daughters
女儿
nu:3 ér
  1. 1 daughter
女友
nu:3 yǒu
  1. 1 girlfriend
女士
nu:3 shì
  1. 1 lady
  2. 2 madam
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi]
  4. 4 Miss
  5. 5 Ms
女婿
nu:3 xu
  1. 1 daughter's husband
  2. 2 son-in-law
女娲
Nu:3 wā
  1. 1 Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
女子
nu:3 zǐ
  1. 1 woman
  2. 2 female
女性
nu:3 xìng
  1. 1 woman
  2. 2 the female sex
女星
nu:3 xīng
  1. 1 female star
  2. 2 famous actress
女朋友
nu:3 péng you
  1. 1 girlfriend
女王
nu:3 wáng
  1. 1 queen
女生
nu:3 shēng
  1. 1 schoolgirl
  2. 2 female student
  3. 3 girl
女皇
nu:3 huáng
  1. 1 empress
女神
nu:3 shén
  1. 1 goddess
  2. 2 nymph
女装
nu:3 zhuāng
  1. 1 women's clothes

Idioms (17)

三个女人一台戏
sān ge nu:3 rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
女大不中留
nu:3 dà bù zhōng liú
  1. 1 when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
女大十八变
nu:3 dà shí bā biàn
  1. 1 lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
女子无才便是德
nu:3 zǐ wú cái biàn shì dé
  1. 1 a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
女扮男装
nu:3 bàn nán zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
女生外向
nu:3 shēng wài xiàng
  1. 1 a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
  2. 2 a woman's heart is with her husband
好男不跟女斗
hǎo nán bù gēn nu:3 dòu
  1. 1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
少女露笑脸，婚事半成全
shào nu:3 lù xiào liǎn , hūn shì bàn chéng quán
  1. 1 When the girl smiles, the matchmaker's job is half done. (idiom)
望女成凤
wàng nu:3 chéng fèng
  1. 1 lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to hope one's daughter is a success in life
男尊女卑
nán zūn nu:3 bēi
  1. 1 to regard men as superior to women (idiom)
男扮女装
nán bàn nu:3 zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a man) to dress as a woman (idiom)
男欢女爱
nán huān nu:3 ài
  1. 1 passionate love (idiom)
神女有心，襄王无梦
shén nu:3 yǒu xīn , Xiāng Wáng wú mèng
  1. 1 lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom)
  2. 2 (said of a woman's unrequited love)
红男绿女
hóng nán lu:4 nu:3
  1. 1 young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
绿女红男
lu:4 nu:3 hóng nán
  1. 1 young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
重男轻女
zhòng nán qīng nu:3
  1. 1 to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
金童玉女
jīn tóng yù nu:3
  1. 1 lit. golden boys and jade maidens (idiom)
  2. 2 attendants of the Daoist immortals
  3. 3 fig. lovely young children
  4. 4 a golden couple
  5. 5 (of a couple who are in the public eye) a lovely young couple

Sample Sentences

Jessica是学校数一数二的美女。
shì xuéxiào shǔyīshǔèr de měinǚ 。
Jessica is one of the most beautiful girls in our school.
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女生
nǚshēng
Female
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我有个护士朋友说是家长想要女婿了，所以想认识认识新朋友。但是她可挑剔了，她开出来的征友条件，让人看了都傻眼。
wǒ yǒu ge hùshi péngyou shuō shì jiāzhǎng xiǎngyào nu:3xu le ，suǒyǐ xiǎng rènshi rènshi Xīn péngyou 。dànshì tā kě tiāoti le ，tā kāi chūlái de zhēngyǒu tiáojiàn ，ràng rén kàn le dōu shǎyǎn 。
I have a nurse friend who says that her parents want a son-in-law, so she wants to meet new friends. But she’s very picky, and her list of boyfriend criteria is really shocking.
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心口不一的女生很难懂。
xīnkǒubùyī de nǚshēng hěn nándǒng 。
Girls who don’t say what they mean are hard to understand.
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男人和女人真是天差地别。
nánrén hé nǚrén zhēnshi tiānchādìbié 。
Men and women are so different.
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女洗手间
nǚ xǐshǒujiān
female washroom
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我很好啊！你......有女友了吧？
wǒ hěn hǎo a ！nǐ ......yǒu nu:3yǒu le ba ？
I’m good. You have a girlfriend by now, don’t you?
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隔天他拖着疲惫的身躯去上班，晚上剩他一个人准备打烊的时候，女孩儿又来了。秦宇显得有点不知所措。
gétiān tā tuō zhe píbèi de shēnqū qù shàngbān ，wǎnshang shèng tā yīgē rén zhǔnbèi dǎyàng de shíhou ，nǚháiēr yòu lái le 。QínYǔ xiǎnde yǒudiǎn bùzhīsuǒcuò 。
The next day, he dragged himself to work. When it was time to close the shop at night, the girl came again. QinYu looked like he didn't know what to do.
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秦宇想知道是怎么回事，但没有女孩儿的联络方式也没办法问她，他甚至连女孩儿的名字都不知道。
QínYǔ xiǎng zhīdào shì zěnme huíshì ，dàn méiyǒu nǚháiēr de liánluò fāngshì yě méi bànfǎ wèn tā ，tā shènzhì lián nǚháiēr de míngzi dōu bù zhīdào 。
QinYu wanted to know what is going on, but he couldn't ask the girl without her contact information, he didn't even know what the girl's name is.
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女孩儿又递给他两张票，说：不好意思，昨晚我不小心拿到错的票放进信封里了。那两张是我在上海的跳蚤市场淘到的古董，这两张才是这周六的门票，就这么巧，恰恰是一样的日期。
nǚháiēr yòu dì gěi tā liǎng zhāng piào ，shuō ：bùhǎoyìsi ，zuówǎn wǒ bù xiǎoxīn nádào cuò de piào fàngjìn xìnfēng lǐ le 。nà liǎng zhāng shì wǒ zài Shànghǎi de tiàozǎoshìchǎng táo dào de gǔdǒng ，zhè liǎng zhāng cái shì zhè zhōuliù de ménpiào ，jiù zhème qiǎo ，qiàqià shì yīyàng de rìqī 。
The girl gave him two tickets again, and she said, "Sorry, I put the wrong tickets into the envelope last night. Those are the antique I picked out at a flea market in Shanghai, and these two tickets are the ones for this Saturday. It's such a coincidence that they're the same date." She said.
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