| 女 | ||
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| 女 (U+5973) "woman, female" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | nǚ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄋㄩˇ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | neu | |
| Wade–Giles: | nü3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | néuih | |
| Jyutping: | neoi5 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | lú | |
| Japanese Kana: | ジョ jo (on'yomi) おんな onna (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 녀 (여) nyeo | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Left) 女字旁 nǚzìpáng (Bottom) 女字底 nǚzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 女偏/おんなへん onnahen | |
| Hangul: | 계집 gyejip | |
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Radical 38 or radical woman (女部) meaning "woman" or "female" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 681 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
女 is also the 56th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.