姑娘
gū niang 1–5
girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old)
- Characters
- 2
- 姑 · 娘
- Syllables
- 2
- gū niang
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,474
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 姑gū8 strokesHSK 3father's sister; husband's mother
- 娘niáng10 strokesHSK 3mother; young girl; woman; wife
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
四位姑娘之中最美的是南希。
Sì wèi gū niang zhī zhōng zuì měi de shì Nán xī
Nancy is the most beautiful of the four girls.
在面包房工作的姑娘很可爱。
Zài miàn bāo fáng gōng zuò de gū niang hěn kě ài
The girl who works at the bakery is cute.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 姑娘. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 娘niángHSK 7
mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate
- 新娘xīn niángHSK 4
bride
- 姑姑gū guHSK 6
paternal aunt
- 姑且gū qiě
for the time being; tentatively