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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  (mother), which has developed similarly, but also includes dots for nipples and has retained both breasts.

女 女 女 女
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

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(radical 38 +0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 女 (V), four-corner 40400)

  1. female
  2. rad. 38

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  • KangXi: page 254, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6036
  • Dae Jaweon: page 516, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1023, character 23
  • Unihan data for U+5973

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(jyutping jyu5, neoi5, neoi6, Yale neui5)


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(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Etymology 1

/womi1na/ > /womina/ > /omina/. The initial /wo/ expressed "small, youth" and contrasted with /o/ "grown, old" (as in omina "old woman"). The medial /m/ is cognate with me (female, woman).

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(hiragana おみな, romaji omina, historical hiragana をみな)

  1. young woman
  2. a woman

[edit] Etymology 2

wonna > onna. From earlier /womina/. The initial /wo/ expressed "small, youth" and contrasted with /o/ "grown, old" (as in omina "old woman"). The medial /n/, from earlier /m/, is cognate with me (female, woman).

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(hiragana おんな, romaji onna, historical hiragana をんな)

  1. a woman

[edit] Etymology 3

/me1/ > /me/.

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(hiragana , romaji me)

  1. female
  2. woman
  3. wife
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Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): () (revised: nyeo(yeo), McCune-Reischauer: nyŏ(yŏ), Yale: nye(nye))
  • Name (hangeul): 계집 (revised: gyejip, McCune-Reischauer: kyejip, Yale: kyeycip)
  1. (계집 녀, gyeojip-): female, woman, wife.

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(pinyin (nü3), (ru3), Wade-Giles3)

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(* niǔ, * njiǔ)


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(POJ lú (lu2), lí (li2))


[edit] Vietnamese

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(nữ, nữa, lỡ, nhỡ, nớ, nợ, nỡ, nự)

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