女
KANJI DETAIL
woman
On readingじょ, にょ, にょう3 strokesN5
Radical 女 · womanStroke order
Loading the stroke order for 女.
Japanese readings
- On reading
- じょ, にょ, にょう
- Kun reading
- おんな, め, おみな
Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
女denotes a woman; its kun-reading isおんな, and its on-readings includeじょ. - Basic usage:
女(おんな)means a woman, while女子(じょし)refers to women or female students.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- An individual in a story and a school or sporting category
若い女means a young woman. It identifies an individual traveling in a story.女子の部means the women's division of a competition.女子means female students in the classroom context; final子does not always restrict the word to young children.