男女

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Chinese

male female; woman; daughter
trad. (男女)
simp. #(男女)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (8) (12)
Final () (159) (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter nom nrjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nʌm/ /ɳɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəm/ /ɳiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɒm/ /niɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəm/ /ɳɨə̆X/
Li
Rong
/nᴀm/ /niɔX/
Wang
Li
/nɒm/ /nĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/năm/ /ni̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
naam4 neoi5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán
Middle
Chinese
‹ nom › ‹ nrjoX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁm/ /*nraʔ/
English man, male female

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 9354 9616
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuːm/ /*naʔ/

Noun

男女

  1. man and woman; men and women; both sexes
    男女比例失衡  ―  nánnǚ bǐlì shīhéng  ―  sex ratio imbalance
    男女同工同酬  ―  Nánnǚ tónggōngtóngchóu.  ―  Men and women should get equal pay for equal work.
    男女搭配幹活 [MSC, trad.]
    男女搭配干活 [MSC, simp.]
    Nánnǚ dāpèi, gànhuó bù lèi.
    Men and women are more efficient when they work together.
  2. (literary, in general) common people; the masses
  3. (literary) sexual desire; lust
  4. (literary) sons and daughters; children
  5. (literary) Term of address for, or a humble term of address used by, a person who has low social status.
  6. (literary) A term of abuse.

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (男女):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
だん
Grade: 1
じょ
Grade: 1
kan'on
Kanji in this term
なん
Grade: 1
にょ
Grade: 1
goon

Pronunciation

Noun

(だん)(じょ) or (なん)(にょ) (danjo or nannyo (counter )

  1. man and woman, men and women; both sexes
  2. boy and girl, boys and girls

Derived terms

References

  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

男女 (namnyeo) (hangeul 남녀)

  1. hanja form? of 남녀 (man and woman)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

男女

  1. chữ Hán form of nam nữ (man and woman).