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we; us; ourselves; our
HSK 1
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  *軿* | 軿* | *軿
curtained carriage used by women / to gather together / to assemble
lit. music, women, dogs and horses (traditional aristocratic amusements, with dogs and horses referring to activities such as hunting and riding) (idiom) / fig. wine, women and song; dissolute pleasures; a life of sensual indulgence
(neologism, 2017) (slang) a pair of women whose seemingly close friendship is actually shallow, insincere and subtly competitive; fake besties; frenemies
cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits
HSK 7-9
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  *BM* | BM* | *BM
Brandy Melville, fashion brand known for clothes targeted at very slim young women / (generic usage) fashions for petite young women
"she-economy" reflecting women's economic contribution / euphemism for prostitution-based economy
(usually of women) chastity / virginity / virtue / honor / loyalty / moral integrity
half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk
HSK 7-9
small and weak; puny / the small and weak; children; women and children
Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
International Women's Day (March 8)
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  *衵* | 衵* | *衵
women's undergarments
women's restroom; women's toilet
women's volleyball / abbr. for 女子排球
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc)
women's basketball / women's basketball team
women's doubles (in tennis, badminton etc)
director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
men, women, young and old / everybody
women (in general)
women's soccer; women's football / women's soccer team
International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid
men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius)
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
women and children
women's singles (in tennis, badminton etc)
International Women's Day (March 8)
(of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period
women love bad guys
greedy for sex / given to lust for women
informal wear / home clothes (old) / women's underwear / lingerie
(idiom) to have had relationships with many women
to chase women / to express oneself in a pompous flowery style
Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964
women's rights
(slang) maiden; young lady (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 乙女 "otome", used esp. to refer to romantic media and games aimed at women)
otome game – a romance simulation game targeted at women, typically featuring female protagonists and multiple male love interests (abbr. for 乙女遊戲|乙女游戏)
camisole (women's garment)
women and children
square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China
International Women's Day (March 8)
source of calamity (esp. of women)
to make hanky-panky / to seduce women
widow's peak (in China, regarded as attractive in women)
yellow flower (cosmetic powder used on women's forehead in former times)
(coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time / second marriage / person who remarries
women's clothes
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
follower of wine and women / dissolute person
(of women) beginning of menstrual cycle / full-term gestation
three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
luck with women
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  *帏* | 帏* | *帏
curtain / women's apartment / tent
(slang) (of women) to hunt for rich, attractive guys
cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban
women's movement / feminism
women's league / women's association
cutie / sweetie / (Tw) camisole (women's garment)
a feast for the eyes (idiom) / (of women) gorgeous / graceful / (of scenery) beautiful
women's love / passion (felt by lady)
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  *巾* | 巾* | *巾
towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50
to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women
men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages
All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949)
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  *壸* | 壸* | *壸
palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women
old-fashioned women's obeisance / Taiwan pr. [lian4 ren4]
Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles)
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  *淑* | 淑* | *淑
(bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable / (used in given names) / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
to regard men as superior to women (idiom)
crown or tiara of a queen, empress or beauty pageant winner / first place in a women's competition
to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher
men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom)
women's bathroom (abbr. for 女衛生間|女卫生间)
Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors
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  *妾* | 妾* | *妾
concubine / I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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  *闺* | 闺* | *闺
small arched door / boudoir; lady's chamber / (fig.) women
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  *帼* | 帼* | *帼
cap worn by women / feminine
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
women's suffrage
chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc
dangling ornament worn by women
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  *闱* | 闱* | *闱
door to women's room / gate to palace
court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women
three women makes a crowd
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  *娅* | 娅* | *娅
(literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names)
female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers.
(men) sideburns / (women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples
Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
(coll.) (of women) to get one's period
(of women) grieved appearance (idiom) / sorrowful mien
nüshu writing, a phonetic syllabary for Yao ethnic group 瑤族|瑶族 dialect designed and used by women in Jiangyong county 江永縣|江永县 in southern Hunan
wine and women / color of wine / drunken expression
pervert (esp. one who gropes women in public)

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