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  *跟* | 跟* | *跟
heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns)
HSK 1
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  *女* | 女* | *女
female / woman / daughter
HSK 1
woman
HSK 1
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
HSK 1
younger sister / young woman / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
woman / female
HSK 3
maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
beautiful woman
HSK 4
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
HSK 4
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  *归* | 归* | *归
to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
HSK 4
children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love)
HSK 5
woman / the female sex
HSK 5
woman
HSK 6
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
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  *嫁* | 嫁* | *嫁
(of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *聘* | 聘* | *聘
to employ; to appoint / (bound form) to betroth / (coll.) (of a woman) to get married; to be marrried off / (literary) to visit another state as an envoy on a diplomatic mission / Taiwan pr. [ping4]
HSK 7-9
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  *娶* | 娶* | *娶
to take a wife / to marry (a woman)
HSK 7-9
maiden; unmarried woman / (coll.) daughter
HSK 7-9
beautiful woman; belle
HSK 7-9
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  *讨* | 讨* | *讨
to invite / to provoke / to demand or ask for / to send armed forces to suppress / to denounce or condemn / to marry (a woman) / to discuss or study
HSK 7-9
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
pregnant woman
HSK 7-9
wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman)
HSK 7-9
(of a woman) slim / slender / graceful
HSK 7-9
scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot
HSK 7-9
(of a woman) to be fiercely protective of one's children
(of woman) to remarry
(coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
"Madam" (affectionate term for an elderly woman) / CL:
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  *PU* | PU* | *PU
the degree of suspicion that a woman might, after she marries, cheat on her husband (abbr. for "paternity uncertainty")
woman's handbag or shoulder bag
spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms) / cuttlefish (on dining menus) / (literary) beautiful woman
female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers.
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  *姬* | 姬* | *姬
woman / concubine / female entertainer (archaic)
menstruation / woman's period
(politics) strongman / (in the workplace, esp. of a woman) a highly capable person / (old) robber
(literary) (of a woman) to have a graceful demeanor / beautiful woman
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
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  *阁* | 阁* | *阁
pavilion (usu. two-storied) / cabinet (politics) / boudoir / woman's chamber / rack / shelf
(literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded
to remarry (of a woman)
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
to freeze a woman's eggs for later fertilization; to cryopreserve oocytes
black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦
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  *姈* | 姈* | *姈
(literary) (of a woman) intelligent / (used mostly in female names)
(derog.) woman
woman recuperating after childbirth / woman in childbirth
good looks (of a woman)
a virtuous and benevolent woman (idiom)
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  *媛* | 媛* | *媛
(bound form) beautiful woman (in practice, often pronounced [yuan2]) / Taiwan pr. [yuan2]
(of a woman) remarkably beautiful; stunning
(literary) beautiful woman / (literary) lovely; graceful / (literary) the moon
married woman; wife (as a social role)
pregnant / pregnant woman
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) / life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋
BWH, abbr. for a woman's three measurements, namely: bust 胸圍|胸围, waist 腰圍|腰围 and hip 臀圍|臀围
to pass through a doorway / (of a woman) to marry / orchestral music interlude in an opera
a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
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  *妇* | 妇* | *妇
woman
evil spirit / alluring woman
young married woman
(of a woman) to marry a man of lower social status / to marry down
(ACG) mature, assertive, and usu. sexy woman
to get married (of woman)
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  *妆* | 妆* | *妆
(of a woman) to adorn oneself / makeup / adornment / trousseau / stage makeup and costume
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  *姥* | 姥* | *姥
governess / old woman
immortal (esp. female) / deity / fairy / Goddess / fig. beautiful woman
to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities
a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks
(dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman
young woman / maiden / girl / CL: 個|个,
menstruation / a woman's period
(of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
face powder and eyebrow liner / cosmetics / (fig.) beautiful woman
rarity / rare object / rare person / extraordinarily beautiful woman
beautiful feminine attire / (fig.) young woman
righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing
springtime bamboo shoots / fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate
young married woman / mistress / (fig.) punching bag / (old) child bride
beautiful woman
beautiful woman
a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death
encounter with a beautiful woman / romance / affair
(dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman
Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Cantonese 夏娃 {Haa6waa1})
(Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
violent / fierce and tough / shrewish (woman)
(of a woman) to take a lover
(of a woman) beautiful; pretty
beautiful image of a woman
old woman (at times contemptuous)
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
boyfriend / paramour (of a woman)
wealthy woman
the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom) / influential figure

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