女
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[edit] Etymology
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 (“mother”), which has developed similarly, but also includes dots for nipples and has retained both breasts.
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[edit] Han character
女 (radical 38 女+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 女 (V), four-corner 40400)
- female
- rad. 38
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[edit] References
- 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
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
女 (jyutping jyu5, neoi5, neoi6, Yale neui5)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Kanji
[edit] Readings
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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”).
[edit] Noun
女 (hiragana おみな, romaji omina, historical hiragana をみな)
- young woman
- 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”).
[edit] Noun
女 (hiragana おんな, romaji onna, historical hiragana をんな)
- a woman
[edit] Etymology 3
/me1/ > /me/.
[edit] Noun
- female
- woman
- wife
- c. 890: Taketori Monogatari (page 3)
- 女(め)の女にあづけてやしなはす。
- c. 890: Taketori Monogatari (page 3)
[edit] Derived terms
- 妹 (imo)
- 郎女 (iratsume)
- 姫 (hime)
- 女神 (megami)
- 女君 (megimi)
- 姪 (mei)
- 牝鹿 (meka)
- 女子 (meko)
- 女の子 (me no ko)
- 乳母 (menoto)
- 女親 (meoya)
- 雌 (mesu)
- 雌鳥 (medori)
- 婚く (memaku)
- 女々しい (memeshii)
- 娶る (metoru)
- 牝馬 (meuma, mema)
- 牝牛, 雌牛 (meushi)
- 女 (omina, onna)
- 嫗 (omina)
- 母 (omo)
- 乙女 (otome)
- 浮女 (ukareme)
[edit] References
- 1997 March 3, Horiuchi, Hideaki; Ken Akiyama, Taketori Monogatari , Ise Monogatari, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240017-4:
[edit] See also
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[edit] Hanja
女
Eumhun:
- Name (hangeul): 계집 (revised: gyejip, McCune-Reischauer: kyejip, Yale: kyeycip)
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[edit] Pronunciation
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[edit] Hanzi
女 (pinyin nǚ (nü3), rǔ (ru3), Wade-Giles nü3)
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[edit] Middle Chinese
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[edit] Min Nan
[edit] Hanzi
女 (POJ lú (lu2), lí (li2))