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  *女* | 女* | *女
female / woman / daughter
HSK 1
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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
woman / female
HSK 3
woman
HSK 1
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
HSK 1
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
younger sister / young woman / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love)
HSK 5
big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
HSK 4
woman / the female sex
HSK 5
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
beautiful woman
HSK 4
girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歸* | 歸* | *歸
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
(derog.) young woman who works in a factory
middle-aged woman; (media term) middle-aged women regarded as a distinct social cohort
ice queen (beautiful woman who appears to be emotionless and distant)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫁* | 嫁* | *嫁
(of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
HSK 7-9
woman
HSK 6
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
(of a married woman) to cheat on her husband; to have an affair
(loanword) tank (military vehicle) / (derog.) (slang) overweight woman
HSK 7-9
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; belle
HSK 7-9
lit. lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze (idiom) / fig. gorgeously dressed (woman)
married woman; wife (as a social role)
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
(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)
(of a woman) to get married; to take a husband
to fuck (a woman) (vulgar)
little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娶* | 娶* | *娶
to take a wife / to marry (a woman)
HSK 7-9
(coll.) "leftover woman" – a woman who remains single beyond the typical marrying age
woman
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
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
(of a woman) slim / slender / graceful
HSK 7-9
lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom) / (said of a woman's unrequited love)
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
wealthy woman
(ACG) mature, assertive, and usu. sexy woman
to live off a woman
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
face powder and eyebrow liner / cosmetics / (fig.) beautiful woman
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
talented man and beautiful woman / ideal couple
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姝* | 姝* | *姝
pretty woman
good looks (of a woman)
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
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
successful career woman / able woman
married woman
woman from an ordinary family
gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman)
HSK 7-9
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
beautiful woman
beautiful but dangerous woman; femme fatale
milk from a woman's breast / milk (used in the names of dishes to indicate white sauce)
(of a woman) lovely as a flower (idiom) / beautiful
to waste; to spoil / to ruin; to wreck / to insult; to humiliate / to defile (a woman); to rape / also pr. [zao1ta5]
(dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman
pregnant woman
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
beautiful feminine attire / (fig.) young woman
suicide attacker; suicide bomber / voluptuous woman; muscular man
to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities
(dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman
menstruation / a woman's period
comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
(Tw) beautiful woman / sexy woman
(of a woman) old and faded
delicate as a flower, refined as a precious jade (idiom) / (of a woman) exquisite
age (of a young woman)
beautiful woman
(Internet slang) sweet, naive young woman
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
to secretively take advantage of others or public resources for minor personal gain / to grope a woman or girl
righteousness / virtuous cause / a woman's marriage / main points of a piece of writing
gorgeous-looking woman
lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese); madam
(politics) strongman / (in the workplace, esp. of a woman) a highly capable person / (old) robber
young woman / maiden / girl / CL: 個|个,
(coll.) woman
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婦* | 婦* | *婦
woman
(idiom) (of a woman) slender and elegant / (idiom) (of a plant) tall and straight
beautiful image of a woman
woman / female / female compatriot
(of a woman's bearing) graceful / elegant / lithe
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媸* | 媸* | *媸
ugly woman
flirtatious / coquettish / sweet and charming / beautiful young woman (old)
woman / woman's headdress (ancient)
(coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
saline soil / (fig.) infertile woman
my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife

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