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

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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
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Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: 1
kun'yomi

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(おみな)() (ominagoをみなご (wominago)?

  1. a female child; a girl
Derived terms
  • (おんな)() (onnago), (おな)() (onago)

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

Noun

(おんな)() (onnagoをんなご (wonnago)?

  1. a female child; a girl
  2. a woman
Derived terms
  • (おな)() (onago)

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) [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. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →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)

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

Noun

(ゐな)() (winagu

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

Derived terms

References

Okinoerabu

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

Noun

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

  1. woman, girl

Derived terms

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

Noun

女子(ふなぐ) or 女子(をぅなぐ) (funagu or ōnagu

  1. girl, woman

References