女子

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Chinese

female; woman; daughter
 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (女子)
simp. #(女子)
anagram 子女

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (12) (13)
Final () (22) (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nrjoX tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳɨʌX/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳiɔX/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/niɔX/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳɨə̆X/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/niɔX/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/nĭoX/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ni̯woX/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
neoi5 zi2

Noun

女子

  1. (formal) woman; female (Classifier: ; )
    女子女子   huà zhōng nǚzǐ   the woman in the painting
    女子籃球女子篮球   nǚzǐ lánqiú   women's basketball
  2. (literary or Wanrong Mandarin, Dungan, Jiangxi Hakka) daughter
  3. (literary) virgin girl
  4. (Xi'an Mandarin, Waxiang) girl

Synonyms

  • (woman):
  • (daughter):
  • (girl):

Antonyms

Derived terms

See also

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
じょ
Grade: 1

Grade: 1
kan’on

Pronunciation

Noun

(じょ)() • (joshi) ぢよし (dyosi)?

  1. girl; woman
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
  • (じょ)()(がく)(せい) (joshigakusei, female student)
  • (じょ)()(こう) (joshikō, girls' high school)
  • (じょ)()(こう)(こう) (joshikōkō, girls' high school)
  • (じょ)()(せい)() (joshiseito, school girl)
  • (じょ)()(だい)(がく) (joshidaigaku, women's university)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Compound of (me, woman) + (ko, child).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [me̞ko̞]

Noun

()() • (meko) 

  1. wife and child
  2. wife
  3. a female child; girl
  4. a woman
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
おみな
Grade: 1
こ > ご
Grade: 1
irregular kun’yomi

wominago → ominago.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [o̞mʲina̠ɡo̞]

Noun

(おみな)() • (ominago) をみなご (wominago)?

  1. a female child; a girl
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
おんな
Grade: 1
こ > ご
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

wonnago → onnago. From earlier 女子 (ominago).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [õ̞nːa̠ɡo̞]

Noun

(おんな)() • (onnago) をんなご (wonnago)?

  1. a female child; a girl
  2. a woman
Derived terms

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
おんな > おな
Grade: 1
こ > ご
Grade: 1
irregular kun’yomi

wonago → onago. From earlier wonnago.

Pronunciation

Noun

(おな)() • (onago) をなご (wonago)?

  1. a female child; a girl
    • 1984 February 15, Motoka Murakami, “(かん)(げい)(かい)の〝()き〞の(まき) [A "Tsuki" at the Welcome Party]”, in ()()()(けん) (()()()(けん)) [Musashi’s Sword], volume 13 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 110:
      お…おなごじゃあ‼めんごいおなごさおるぞ!
      O…Onago jā‼ Mengoi onago sa oru zo!
      A…A girl!! There’s a cute girl here, y’all!
  2. a woman

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

女子 • (nyeoja) (hangeul 녀자)

  1. Hanja form? of 녀자 ((North Korea) woman; girl).

Noun

女子 • (yeoja) (hangeul 여자)

  1. Hanja form? of 여자 ((South Korea) woman; girl).

Oki-No-Erabu

Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 1

Etymology

Cognate to Yoron 女子 (ふなぐ, funagu), Okinawan (ゐな)() (winagu), Japanese (おな)() (onago).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [wunaɡu], [jinaɡu]

Noun

女子(をぅなぐ) or 女子(いぃなぐ) or 女子(ゐなぐ) (unagu or yinagu or inagu) 

  1. woman, girl

Derived terms

  • 清ら女子

References

Okinawan

Kanji in this term
ゐな
Grade: 1

Grade: 1
Alternative spelling

Etymology

Cognate with Yoron 女子 (ふなぐ, funagu) and dialectal Japanese (おな)() (onago).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [(ʷ)inaɡu]

Noun

(ゐな)() (winagu) 

  1. woman, girl
    一人(ちゅい)(ゐな)()(ぐゎー)
    chuiwinagungwā
    an only daughter

Derived terms

  • (ゐな)()しーじゃ (winagushīja)

References

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

女子

  1. chữ Hán form of nữ tử (girl; daughter).

Yoron

Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Grade: 1

Etymology

Cognate to Okinawan (ゐな)() (winagu), Japanese (おな)() (onago).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸunaɡu]

Noun

女子(ふなぐ) or 女子(をぅなぐ) (funagu or unagu) 

  1. girl, woman

References

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