HSK 5 · Family

妇女 fùnǚ “woman” in Chinese

Traditional 婦女

What 妇女 means

  1. woman

How to say 妇女

    妇女 in a sentence

    1. 国际妇女节快乐！

      Guójì Fùnǚjié kuàilè!

      Happy International Women’s Day!

      Sentence #5094817 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

    2. 她和小区里大部分妇女不同，因为她会读书写字。

      Tā hé xiǎoqū lǐ dàbùfen fùnǚ bùtóng, yīnwèi tā huì dúshū xiězì.

      She was different from most women in the neighbourhood, for she was able to read and write.

      Sentence #336438 from Tatoeba

    How 妇女 is built

    Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

    The character 妇 (fù) with each of its parts in a different colour
    妇fùwoman
    • 女woman · nǚ
    • 彐snout · jì
    The character 女 (nǚ) drawn as one shape
    女nǚfemale

    女 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

    Memory aidDrawn from a woman kneeling with her arms folded.

    How to write 妇女

    妇 6 strokes · 女 3 strokes

    Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

    妇女 (fùnǚ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
    Stroke order chart for 妇女 (fùnǚ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

    Words related to 妇女

    Words with 妇

    夫妇fūfù · married couple媳妇xífù · daughter-in-law

    Words with 女

    女儿nǚ'ér · daughter女朋友nǚpéngyou · girlfriend女nǚ · female女人nǚrén · woman女孩儿nǚháir · girl女生nǚshēng · female student女士nǚshì · lady

    More words: People, Body & Health

    胆小鬼dǎnxiǎoguǐ · coward对方duìfāng · the other person对象duìxiàng · target分手fēnshǒu · to break up姑姑gūgu · paternal aunt姑娘gūniang · girl伙伴huǒbàn · partner交往jiāowǎng · to associate with

    FAQs

    妇女 (fùnǚ) means “woman”. It is an HSK 5 word.
    Say it fùnǚ: fùnǚ. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
    In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 妇女 is written 婦女. The pronunciation is the same.
    Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type funu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 妇女 from the suggestions. Typing funu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
    妇女 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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    Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.