男
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(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 田 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 男
- Common rank
- #590
- Unicode
- U+7537
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Formation & memory
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Words with 男
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 男人 | a man; a male; men; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 男生 | schoolboy; male student; boy; guy (young adult male) | |
| 男孩儿 | erhua form of 男孩[nan2 hai2] | |
| 男朋友 | boyfriend | |
| 大男子主义者 | male chauvinist | |
| 大男子主义 | male chauvinism | |
| 大男人主义 | male chauvinism | |
| 男主外，女主内 | men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom) | |
| 男性主义 | masculism | |
| 阿尔法男 | alpha male | |
| 大男人 | very masculine guy; a real man; (used ironically) a grown man | |
| 男人家 | a man (rather than a woman) | |
| 男子气 | manly; masculine | |
| 男子单打 | men's singles (in tennis etc) | |
| 男性化 | to masculinize; masculinization | |
| 男中音 | baritone | |
| 理工男 | geek; techie | |
| 男管家 | butler; majordomo; housekeeper | |
| 男高音 | tenor (singing voice); a tenor | |
| 男人不坏，女人不爱 | women love bad guys |