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姑娘

gū niang 1–5

girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old)

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
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.

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