female / woman / daughter
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= ru + Ø3
archaic variant of 汝[ru3]
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How to pronounce 女

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= initial

Nü is for Neptune.

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+ Ø3 final

In the space station’s living room.

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= ru initial

Ru is for Rachel Rhinoceros.

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+ Ø3 final

In the space station’s living room.

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女 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Characters with 女 as component

hǎo = h + ao3
good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
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hào = h + ao4
to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to
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hǎo = h + ao3
good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
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Words with 女

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beautiful woman
prostitute / hooker

Sentences with 女

bān
sēn
kàn
jiàn
rén
ma
kàn
jiàn
Bansom, do you see the woman? Yes.

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