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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意):  (field) +  (strength) – man providing the strength for agricultural labour.

Han character [edit]

(radical 102 +2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田大尸 (WKS), four-corner 60427, composition)

  1. male

Antonyms [edit]

Derived characters [edit]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 759, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21730
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2529, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7537

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale naam4)

  1. man, men
  2. male; masculine

Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

/woto2ko1/: [wotwoko] > [wotoko] > [otoko]. Cognate with the verb wot- "to become young" with ko as a male suffix. Contrasts with otome, the female version.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /o.to.koꜜ/, [o̞˨.to̞˦.ko̞˦]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana おとこ, romaji otoko, historical hiragana をとこ)

  1. man; male person.

Etymology 2 [edit]

/wo/: [wo] > [o]. The male equivalent to me "female, woman".

Noun [edit]

(hiragana , romaji o, historical hiragana )

  1. male
  2. a man
  3. a husband
Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 3 [edit]

/wo2ko1/: [wonwoko] > [wonoko] > onoko. From wo "male" + no2 (genitive) + ko1 "man, child".

Noun [edit]

(hiragana おのこ, romaji onoko, historical hiragana をのこ)

  1. a boy

Names [edit]

  • suffix used by male given names, such as 範男(のりお, Norio), 正男(まさお, Masao; ただお, Tadao), 九州男(くすお, Kusuo).

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: nam, McCune-Reischauer: nam, Yale: nam)

Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin nán (nan2), Wade-Giles nan2)

  1. man
  2. male, masculine

Compounds [edit]


Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*nom)

  1. [[Category:Script error definitions needed|男]]

Min Nan [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ lâm)


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(nam)