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女

JLPT N5 SL1 3 strokes Frequency: #120

Meanings

woman, female

Radicals

女

Decomposition

？

Etymology

Pictographic: A woman turned to the side

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 3

Stroke Order

1 curve right-to-left

2 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ジョ jo

ニョ nyo

ニョウ nyou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

おんな onna

め me

Words Using This Kanji

725 words total

ジョ (21 words)

彼女かのじょ

she / girlfriend

女子じょし

girl / young woman / schoolgirl

少女しょうじょ

girl / young woman

処女しょじょ

virgin / maiden

腐女子ふじょし

fujoshi / female fan of boys' love (BL) / slash fan

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ニョ (1 words)

姉さん女房あねさんにょうぼう

older wife / wife older than her husband

おんな (28 words)

女おんな

woman / female / girl

女の子おんなのこ

girl / young girl / daughter

女の人おんなのひと

woman / female person

女ぶりおんなぶり

woman's looks

女どもおんなども

women

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め (4 words)

女々しいめめしい

effeminate

女木めぎ

female plant (esp. a woody plant)

醜女しこめ

ugly woman / hag / old crone

命短し対する乙女よいのちみじかしたいするおとめよ

O maiden, life is short / maiden addressed in a poetic phrase

Other (671 words)

women's basketball

women's volleyball

stupid girl

no-good woman

woman in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)

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