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女性

nǚ xìng 3–4

woman; the female sex

HSK level
HSK 5
HSK 3.0 level 5
Characters
2
女 · 性
Syllables
2
nǚ xìng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,379

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 女nǚ3 strokesHSK 1woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali)
  • 性xìng8 strokesHSK 3nature, character, sex

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 女性. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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