女 — woman, female

おんな女 woman

おんな

U+5973 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #151 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #98 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #38

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Meanings

woman
female

Readings

On'yomi: じょ jo にょ nyo にょう nyou
Kun'yomi: おんな onna め me

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おんな onna Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

女(おんな) onna woman 女(おんな) の子(こ) onnanoko girl 女(おんな) の人(ひと) onnanohito woman 女(おんな) らしい onnarashii womanly 女(おんな) 形(がた) onnagata onnagata

じょ jo On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

女(じょ) 子(し) joshi girl 男(だん) 女(じょ) danjo men and women 女(じょ) 王(おう) joou queen 女(じょ) 子(し) 大(だい) joshidai women's university 王(おう) 女(じょ) oujo princess 一(いち) 女(じょ) ichijo one daughter 三(さん) 女(じょ) sanjo third daughter 女(じょ) 学(がっ) 校(こう) jogakkou girls' school

め me Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

女(め) 神(がみ) megami goddess 乙(おと) 女(め) otome maiden

にょう nyou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

女(にょう) 房(ぼう) nyoubou wife

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

貴女(あなた) anata you (polite, to a woman)

Words by frequency and grade

42 words

Each dot is a word containing 女: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 18 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

女人禁制四字熟語

woman person, prohibition system

老若男女四字熟語

old young, male female

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Atomic component This kanji has no further breakdown — it's a primitive building block used to compose others.

Used as component in (39)

いもうと妹 younger sister あね姉 elder sister あん安 relax い委 committee し始 commence かなめ要 need こう好 fond ふ婦 lady つま妻 wife さくら桜 cherry

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#38 女 woman