娘
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mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 女 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 娘
- Common rank
- #1,095
- Unicode
- U+5A18
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 娘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 红色娘子军 | Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964 | |
| 新娘子 | see 新娘[xin1 niang2] | |
| 老大娘 | old lady; Madam (polite address); CL:位[wei4] | |
| 回娘家 | (of a wife) to return to her parental home; (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, scho… | |
| 走娘家 | (of a wife) to visit one's parental home | |
| 老板娘 | female proprietor; lady boss; boss's wife | |
| 天要下雨，娘要嫁人 | (lit.) the heavens will rain, and widowed mothers will remarry (saying); (fig.) some thing… | |
| 大娘 | (coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address) | |
| 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 娘家 | wife's family (before marriage) | |
| 家娘 | (dialect) husband's mother | |
| 桃金娘科 | Myrtaceae (family including myrtle, rosemary, oregano etc) | |
| 新娘 | bride | |
| 红娘 | matchmaker | |
| 老娘 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | |
| 有奶便是娘 | lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom); fig. to follow whoever is feeding you; … | |
| 后娘 | stepmother (coll.) | |
| 有奶就是娘 | see 有奶便是娘[you3 nai3 bian4 shi4 niang2] | |
| 狗娘养的 | son of a bitch | |
| 度娘 | alternative name for Baidu 百度[Bai3 du4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 良 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 良 sound part | good, virtuous, respectable | |
| 浪 | breaker, wave; reckless, wasteful | |
| 朗 | bright, clear, distinct | |
| 狼 | wolf | |
| 粮 | food, grain, provisions | |
| 酿 | to ferment, to brew | |
| 琅 | pure, white; carnelian | |
| 踉 | to hop, to jump; hurried, urgent | |
| 锒 | chain, lock; ornament | |
| 稂 | grass; weeds | |
| 莨 | Japanese belladonna; Scopolia japonica |