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Female Woman Girl Daughter 女 Lady Court Remember

Kanji
Onyomi ジョ、ニョ、ニョウ
Kunyomi おんな、め
Nanori おな, た, つき, な
English woman, female
Examples 女のコ(おんなのコ): girl
女子(じょし): woman; girl
女性(じょせい): (1) woman; female (2) feminine gender
女(おんな): woman
彼女(かのじょ): (1) she; her (2) her (3) girl friend; girlfriend; sweetheart
女優(じょゆう): actress
長女(ちょうじょ): eldest daughter; first-born daughter
少女(しょうじょ): young lady; little girl; virgin; maiden; daughter
女王(じょおう): queen
女房(にょうぼう): (1) wife (2) court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace
王女(おうじょ): princess
女史(じょし): (1) Ms (nuance of status); Miss; Madame (2) highbrow (woman); cerebral
女(じょ): (1) woman; girl; daughter (2) Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
女の人(おんなのひと): woman
JLPT Level 5
Jouyou Grade 1
Frequency 151
Components 女: woman, female, female radical (no. 38)
Number of Strokes 3
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 38
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading おんな・おんなへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 象形 Pictographic
Keyword woman
Koohii Story 1 To remember the order of strokes, remember a female ninja is called a "kunoichi". That is, く(hiragana) ノ(katakana) 一(kanji, ichi=one).
Koohii Story 2 My mother taught me that a woman should always sit with her legs crossed (but the arms can be stretched out).

Tags: jlpt.n5, grade1, kanjifreq1-250, kanji_people_general

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