Meaning & readings
woman, female
Origin
This character is a simple picture of a woman. The strokes represent a person in a standing or seated position, with the distinctive curved or bent shape suggesting the form of a female figure. Over time, the picture became more abstract and stylized into the three strokes we see today, but the basic idea remained: a visual representation of woman or female. This character is so fundamental that it also serves as a building block in many other kanji related to family, marriage, and female-associated concepts.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (女).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 3
- Kangxi radical
- 38
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #151 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+05973