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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Han character

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

  1. female, woman, girl
  2. feminine
  3. 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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[edit] Note

It can also be used as a character meaning "you" (and can be used when addressing a man as well as a woman) pronounced "rú" in Mandarin, for which character war borrowed in Han period (originally 汝 Rú was the name of the river in Henan). Example: 子曰:「女器也」 (Master said: "You are a goblet", Lun Yu, 5.4, [1])


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(jyutping jyu5, neoi5, neoi6, Yale neui5)


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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

(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/.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji me)

  1. female
  2. woman
  3. wife
    女(め)の女にあづけてやしなはす。
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(grade 1 kanji)

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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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[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (nü3), (ru3), Wade-Giles3)

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(POJ lú (lu2), lí (li2))


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(nữ, nữa, lỡ, nhỡ, nớ, nợ, nỡ, nự)