女朋友
nǚ péng you
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A girlfriend: the woman or girl someone is going out with. Only a partner is called this; a female friend is just 朋友. 他女朋友 is 'his girlfriend', and to introduce her you say 这是我女朋友.
Bạn gái theo nghĩa người yêu. Bạn bè bình thường là nữ thì chỉ gọi là 朋友. 他女朋友 là “bạn gái anh ấy”; giới thiệu người yêu thì nói 这是我女朋友 (đây là bạn gái tôi).
NounRegister: 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 · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “女朋友” mean?
A girlfriend: the woman or girl someone is going out with. Only a partner is called this; a female friend is just 朋友. 他女朋友 is 'his girlfriend', and to introduce her you say 这是我女朋友. Literally: female friend
Is “女朋友” formal or informal?
女朋友 is generally neutral.