Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 女

Modern (Beijing) reading: nǚ

Preclassic Old Chinese: nraʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nrá

Western Han Chinese: ṇá

Eastern Han Chinese: ṇá

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṇó

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṇó

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṇó

Middle Chinese: ṇö́

English meaning : woman, wife, girl, daughter; female (of persons)

Russian meaning[s]: 1) женщина; женский, дамский; ставится впереди имен существительных, обозначающих женщин-специалистов и др.; 2) дочь; 3) девушка, девица, барышня; 4) яп. маленький, слабый; 5) Дева (созвездие); [nǜ] женить (кого-л.) на своей дочери; выдать дочь за...; [rǔ] древн. ты, вм. 汝

Shuowen gloss: 婦人也.象形.王育說.凡女之屬皆從女.

Comments: Also read *nraʔ-s, MC ṇö̀, Mand. nǜ 'to give someone a wife'. Used also within the compound 女蘿 *nraʔ-rāj 'dodder (Cuscuta)'. The same root is obviously present in 娘 OC *nraŋ, MC ṇaŋ, Mand. niáng 'young lady, woman'. Unaspirated *n- is suggested by Min forms: for 女 cf. Xiamen lu³, Chaozhou nɨ³, Fuzhou nü³; for 娘 cf. Xia. niũ², Chaozhou nĩẽ², Fuzhou nioŋ², Jianou niɔŋ², niɔŋ⁹.

The character is rather frequently used to denote the second person pronoun *nhaʔ (instead of 汝 q.v.) - thus, e.g., in 17.2, 17.3, 27.3.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 38

Four-angle index: 8786

Karlgren code: 0094 a-e

Vietnamese reading: nũ'

Jianchuan Bai: jü̃1

Dali Bai: ńü1

Bijiang Bai: ńü1

Shijing occurrences: 1.1, 9.1, 15.3_, 17.2, 17.3, 23.1, 23.2, 27.3, 39.2, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 51.1, 51.2, 54.3, 58.3, 58.4