女士
nǚ shì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A polite word for a woman, used like 'Ms' or 'madam'. It follows the surname, as in 王女士 'Ms Wang', or stands alone when speaking to her. An announcer opens with 女士们，先生们 'ladies and gentlemen'; the word for men is 先生.
Cách gọi lịch sự dành cho phụ nữ, tương đương “bà”, “cô”, “chị” trong lúc trang trọng. Đứng sau họ: 王女士 (bà Vương); hoặc dùng một mình khi nói với người đó. Người dẫn chương trình mở đầu bằng 女士们，先生们 (kính thưa quý vị); từ dành cho nam giới là 先生.
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 “女士” mean?
A polite word for a woman, used like 'Ms' or 'madam'. It follows the surname, as in 王女士 'Ms Wang', or stands alone when speaking to her. An announcer opens with 女士们，先生们 'ladies and gentlemen'; the word for men is 先生. Literally: woman scholar
Is “女士” formal or informal?
女士 is generally neutral.