女
nǚ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Female, of women and girls: it goes before a noun to mark the female one. 女人 is 'a woman', 女生 'a girl, a female student', 女儿 'daughter'. In pinyin the ü keeps its two dots after n and l: it is nǚ, while nu is a different syllable.
Nữ, thuộc về phụ nữ và con gái; đứng trước danh từ để chỉ người nữ. 女人 là “phụ nữ, đàn bà”, 女生 là “bạn nữ, nữ sinh”, 女儿 là “con gái (con của mình)”. Khi viết pinyin, ü giữ hai dấu chấm sau n và l: nǚ; còn nu là một âm khác.
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 女 = nữ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “nữ” (nu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “女” mean?
Female, of women and girls: it goes before a noun to mark the female one. 女人 is 'a woman', 女生 'a girl, a female student', 女儿 'daughter'. In pinyin the ü keeps its two dots after n and l: it is nǚ, while nu is a different syllable.
Is “女” formal or informal?
女 is generally neutral.