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女 kanji
woman, female
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
ジョニョニョウ
Kun readings
おんなめ
Words with 女
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —処女小説debut novel
- —鉄の処女iron maiden (torture device)
- —女子校生student of a girls' school
- —男女別学single-sex education
- —海外子女(Japanese) children living overseas
- —処女飛行maiden flight
- —男女兼用unisex; for use by both men and women
- —文学少女literary girl; book-loving girl; bookworm girl
- —男女交際social relations between men and women; mingling between the sexes
- —男女共用unisex; usable by both sexes; suitable for both sexes; coed
- —舞台女優stage actress
- —港区女子Minato girl (young woman who likes spending time in fancy neighbourhoods)
- —頂き女子woman who feigns intimacy with men for money
- —女中部屋female servants' bedroom
- —女系家族matrilineal family; family dominated by women; matriarchal family
- —女工哀史The Tragic History of Female Factory Workers (reportage by Wakizo Hosoi, 1925); The Pathetic Life of Mill Girls
- —女性財団Women's Foundation
- —夜の女王Queen of the Night (character in Mozart's Magic Flute)
- —処女生殖parthenogenesis
- —帰国子女枠(school) admission category for students who have lived abroad