Reading
여 (yeo) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 여 (yeo)
woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali)
계집 녀gyejip nyeo
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 계집 (gyejip) is the Korean for woman, and 녀 (nyeo) is the reading. Say 계집 녀 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- ⼥ 38
- Beyond radical
- 0
- Mandarin
- nǚ
- Japanese on
- jo
- Japanese kun
- onna
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 녀, but South Korean spelling writes 여 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
여
Elsewhere in the word
녀
男女 남녀 namnyeo母女 모녀 monyeo少女 소녀 sonyeo
Vocabulary
Words that use 女
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.