Woman radical 女 (nǚ): 51 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Woman radical 女 (nǚ): 51 characters女 (nǚ) is Kangxi radical no. 38, “woman”. In this form it is written with 3 strokes.女 (nǚ) appears in words for women and family roles, and in some characters about qualities such as 好 (hǎo) 'good'.The characters range from 3 to 15 strokes. 10 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 5 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 女 (nǚ) woman / female / girl, 好 (hǎo) good / well, 她 (tā) she / her, 姓 (xìng) surname / to be surnamed.Characters with this radical3 strokes

女 (nǚ) - woman / female / girl

5 strokes

奶 (nǎi) - milk

奴 (nú) - slave

6 strokes

好 (hǎo) - good / well

妈 (mā) - mother, mama

她 (tā) - she / her

如 (rú) - as

妇 (fù) - woman

妆 (zhuāng) - adornment, make-up

奸 (jiān) - crafty, dishonest, selfish

妄 (wàng) - absurd

7 strokes

妨 (fáng) - damage, harm

妙 (miào) - clever

妒 (dù) - jealous, envious

妥 (tuǒ) - suitable

妖 (yāo) - strange, weird, supernatural

8 strokes

姐 (jiě) - older sister

妹 (mèi) - younger sister

妻 (qī) - wife

始 (shǐ) - to begin

姓 (xìng) - surname / to be surnamed

姑 (gū) - father's sister

委 (wěi) - to appoint

姆 (mǔ) - governess, matron, nanny

9 strokes

姨 (yí) - mother's sister

姥 (lǎo) - maternal grandmother

威 (wēi) - power

姿 (zī) - grace, good looks

娃 (wá) - baby

姻 (yīn) - marriage connections

姜 (jiāng) - ginger

娇 (jiāo) - lovable

10 strokes

娘 (niáng) - mother

娱 (yú) - pleasure, enjoyment, amusement

11 strokes

婚 (hūn) - marriage

婆 (pó) - grandmother

娶 (qǔ) - to take a wife

婴 (yīng) - infant

婪 (lán) - avaricious

婉 (wǎn) - graceful

12 strokes

媒 (méi) - medium

媚 (mèi) - to flatter

嫂 (sǎo) - older brother's wife

婿 (xù) - son-in-law

13 strokes

嫁 (jià) - (of a woman) to marry

媳 (xí) - daughter-in-law

嫌 (xián) - to dislike

嫉 (jí) - jealous, envious

媲 (pì) - to match

14 strokes

嫩 (nèn) - young and tender

15 strokes

嬉 (xī) - to amuse oneself

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License