Kanji: 女

    • Meaning : woman,female
    • ON reading : ジョ,ニョ,ニョウ
    • KUN reading : おんな,め
    • Nanori : おな,た,つき,な
    • Stroke count : 3
    • Frequency of use ranking : 151
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
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Words containing that kanji:


  • にはもつながる | にはがる - おんなのかみのけにはたいぞうもつながる - No man can resist the lure of a woman
  • - よわきものよなんじのなはおんななり - Frailty, thy name is woman
  • れどし - おんなはよわしされどはははつよし - A mother is stronger than any other creature
  • - きょうじょ - gallant woman
  • をもす - おんなのいちねんいわをもとおす - Women will have their wills
  • - あかのじょうおうかせつ - Red Queen hypothesis
  • - にょういん | にょいん - woman bestowed with the title "in" (usu. the empress, imperial princesses, etc.)
  • ればし - おんなさんにんよればかしまし - Three women make a market
  • - めこ | メコ - vagina | girl
  • - せいじょ - adult woman/mature woman
  • - かのじょじしん - herself/she herself
  • - だんじょきょうがく - co-education/mixed education
  • 椿 - おとめつばき - otome camelia/Camellia japonica var.
  • - しゅくじょふう - ladylike/in the manner of a lady
  • - あくじょ - wicked or ugly woman
  • - だておんな - flapper
  • - いちゅうのおんな - sweetheart/girlfriend
  • - おとめざ - (constellation) Virgo/the Virgin
  • - おうじょ - princess
  • - おとめごころ - girl's feeling/maiden's mind
  • - げすおんな - woman of low rank/term of degradation for a woman
  • - げじょげなん - servants
  • - げじょ - maid servant
  • - しもじょちゅう - kitchen maid
  • - あま | あまめ - woman shell diver
  • - きこくしじょ - child who has returned to his or her country/returnee
  • - きじょ - demoness/witch/ogress/she-devil
  • - ぎじょ - woman entertainer
  • - きこくしじょわく - special consideration for students who have lived abroad
  • | | - あなた - you (referring to someone of equal or lower status) | dear (what a wife calls a husband)
  • - きょうじょ - gallant woman
  • - きょうじょ - madwoman
  • - きょうおんな - Kyoto woman
  • - じょせいけいさつかん - policewoman
  • | - うぶめ - woman in late pregnancy/woman on the point of giving birth
  • - いらつめ - lass (vocative)
  • - じょがくいん - girls college (used esp. in the names of Christian schools)
  • - こうじょ - filial daughter
  • - みこまい - shrine maiden's ceremonial dance (in kagura)
  • プッツン - プッツンじょゆう - actress that frequently does bizarre things
  • - そばにょうぼう - mistress/concubine
  • - しょじょそうしつ - loss of virginity (in women)/loss of maidenhead
  • - こうじょ | おうじょ - imperial princess
  • | - そばめ - mistress/concubine
  • - ちじょ - female pervert
  • - さいじょ - talented woman
  • - やまおんな - mountain witch | akebia (Akebia quinata)
  • - つかえめ - maidservant
  • 宿 | うるき - うるきぼし - Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
  • - さんじょ - third daughter
  • | - やまめ | ヤマメ - landlocked masu salmon
  • しいがよい | しいほうがいい | しいい | しいがいい - にょうぼうとたたみはあたらしいほうがいい | にょうぼうとたたみはあたらしいほうがよい - wives and tatami are best when they're new
  • - しじょ - men and women/the whole town
  • - しじょ - child
  • - おんなっけ - female presence
  • - だんじょきょうどうさんかくしゃかいきほんほう - Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society (1999)
  • - じじょ - lady attendant/maid
  • - じじょ - boys and girls
  • - じょせいだんたい - women's organization/women's group/women's movement
  • - じじょ - second daughter
  • - じょせいせんようしゃりょう - women-only carriage (e.g. on a train)
  • - しょじょきゅう - Virgo (6th zodiacal sign)/the Virgin
  • | - ひ | めのこやつこ - female slave | female servant/housemaid
  • - しゅうどうじょ - (Catholic) nun
  • - おんなぎ - feminine spirit/graceful and kind nature
  • だてらに - おんなだてらに - unlike a woman/unwomanly/woman that she is
  • らしい - おんならしい - womanly/ladylike/feminine
  • らしい - じょおうらしい - queen-like
  • - じょけん - women's rights
  • き - おんなずき - fondness for women/woman admirer/lustful man/spoony
  • - じょしこう - girls' high school
  • - しゅくじょ - lady
  • - おんなにふじゆう - a guy who never gets the women/nerd
  • - じょい - woman doctor
  • - じょおうへいか - Her Majesty the Queen
  • - じょけんうんどう - women's rights movement
  • ればしい - おんなさんにんよればかしましい - wherever women gather it is noisy
  • - じょしこうせい - female high-school student
  • - おかみ | じょしょう - mistress/landlady/hostess/proprietress
  • し | らし - おんなたらし - guy who knows how to play the ladies/skillful playboy/lady-killer/philanderer/Don Juan
  • - じょせいさべつ - discrimination against women/sexism
  • - じょせい - schoolgirl
  • - にょたい | じょたい - woman's body
  • - じょなん - trouble with women
  • - じょりゅう - woman writer
  • - しょじょ - virgin/maiden
  • - おんな - woman
  • | | のコ - おんなのこ | おんなのコ | おんにゃのこ - girl
  • - おんないっぱん - women in general
  • - じょがくせい - schoolgirl
  • - じょけんかくちょう - extension of women's rights
  • - じょし - Ms (nuance of status)/Miss/Madame | highbrow (woman)/cerebral
  • - じょしだい - women's college/women's university
  • - めがみ | じょしん - goddess
  • - じょせい - woman/female | feminine gender
  • - じょせいぞう - female image
  • - じょせい - female voice
  • - じょちゅう - maid/female servant
  • 便 - おんなべんじょ - women's toilet
  • - じょろう - prostitute/entertainment woman
  • - しょじょまく - hymen
  • - じょ - woman/girl/daughter | Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
  • - おんなのひと - woman
  • - じょおう - queen
  • い - おんなぐるい - girl crazy
  • - じょけんかくちょうろんしゃ - feminist
  • - じょし | おなご - woman/girl
  • - じょじ - baby girl/primary schoolgirl
  • - おんなおや - female parent
  • - じょせいいっぱん - women in general
  • - じょせいび - feminine beauty
  • - じょそう - female clothing/wearing female clothing
  • - じょてい - empress
  • - にょうぼう - wife
  • - おみなえし - patrinia/Patrinia scabiosaefolia
  • - じょしゅう - female prisoner
  • - にょにん - women
  • - じょせいき - female genitalia
  • - じょせいよう - for use by women
  • - じょそん - respect for women
  • - おんなゆ - women's bath
  • - じょゆう - actress
  • - しょうねんしょうじょ - boys and girls
  • - かみじょちゅう - head servant
  • - まほうしょうじょ - magical girl
  • - じょせいべっし - discrimination against women/female discrimination
  • - いろおんな - good-looking woman | concubine
  • - しりがるおんな - promiscuous woman
  • - ぐじょ - daughter
  • - じょせいけんお - misogyny
  • れる - ねむれるもりのびじょ - Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
  • - じょなんのそう - a 'seeming' of ill fortune concerning women
  • - おなごだけ | オナゴダケ - Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
  • | - めだけ | メダケ - Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
  • - ゆきおんな - snow woman/fairy
  • | - あぶらめ | アブラメ - greenling | salamander
  • ホルモン - じょせいホルモン - female hormone
  • - ぜんなんぜんにょ - pious men and women
  • アナ - じょしアナ - female TV announcer
  • - きょうじょしぎ | キョウジョシギ - ruddy turnstone (species of sandpiper, Arenaria interpres)
  • - じょしたんきだいがく - women's junior college
  • - じょしたんだい - women's junior college
  • - おおおんな - a huge woman
  • - しょじょこうたん - virgin birth (esp. the Virgin Birth of Jesus)
  • - だんじょどうけん - equal rights among men and women
  • - だんそんじょひ - male domination of women/male chauvinism/subjection of women
  • - だんじょ - man and woman/men and women
  • - しょじょかいたい - virgin birth (esp. the Virgin Birth of Jesus)
  • - ちょうじょ - eldest daughter
  • - おんなへん - kanji "woman" radical at left
  • - じょせいせいきせつじょ - female genital cutting/female genital mutilation/female circumcision
  • - ていじょ - virtuous woman/faithful wife
  • - てんにょ - heavenly nymph/celestial maiden
  • - あまつおとめ - celestial maiden
  • - しょじょじゅたい - virgin birth (esp. the Virgin Birth of Jesus)
  • び - おんなあそび - womanizing
  • - じょしていしんたい - women's volunteer corps (groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII, sometimes mistakenly associated with comfort women)
  • - おおおかみ - senior proprietress (hostess) of a Japanese inn or restaurant
  • - じょせいきせつじょ - female genital cutting/female genital mutilation/female circumcision
  • さん - あねさんにょうぼう - wife who is older than her husband
  • - おとこはどきょうおんなはあいきょう - men should be brave, women should be affable
  • のむけた | けた - しぶかわのむけたおんな - urbane and good-looking woman
  • - わかおかみ - proprietress-to-be of a Japanese inn or restaurant
  • - じょしかつれい - female genital cutting/female genital mutilation/female circumcision
  • - おとめざくら - fairy primrose (Primula Malacoides)
  • - じょせいご - women's language
  • - じょせいゆういろんしゃ - female chauvunist
  • - じょせいじょうい - female dominance/female supremacy
  • - じょせいかいほううんどうか - women's liberationist
  • - じょせいさんせいけん - women's suffrage
  • - ばいた - prostitute/whore | tramp/floozy/slut
  • - じょせいかん - one's view (opinion) of women
  • - めおせいりょう - co-ed dormitory/mixed student accommodation
  • - びじょ - beautiful woman
  • - おんなずもう - female sumo wrestling/female sumo wrestler
  • - かのじょ - she/her | girl friend/girlfriend/sweetheart
  • - びしょうじょ - beautiful girl
  • - だんじょさべつ - sexual discrimination/sexism
  • - じょけいてんのう - matrilineal emperor of Japan/emperor (either male or female) whose mother is (was) a member of the Imperial family but whose father is (was) not
  • - ふじょ - woman/womankind
  • - じゅくじょ - attractive mature lady
  • - じょせいてんのう - female emperor of Japan (historical or postulated)
  • - ふじょし - women and children | woman/grown woman/wife
  • - うわきおんな - bimbo/slut
  • がったいい - こまたのきれあがったいいおんな - slender and smartly shaped woman
  • モテ - モテおんな - woman who is popular with men
  • - ほうしめ - deaconess
  • - おとこおんな - masculine (mannish) woman | feminine (effeminate) man | intersexual/hermaphrodite
  • - まつじょ - youngest daughter
  • - おんなおび - women's kimono sash
  • - まじょ - witch
  • - おぼこ - virgin
  • - しょうばいおんな - woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.) | woman who works in an adult entertainment business | woman from the red-light district/demimondaine/prostitute
  • - ぜげん - someone who makes their living selling women into prostitution/pimp/procurer
  • - やさおんな | やさめ | ゆうじょ - gentle woman/affectionate woman | beautiful graceful woman
  • - ゆうじょ - prostitute/harlot
  • - ふじょし - a girl who is very enthusiastic about comics featuring male homoeroticism
  • - ようじょ - little girl
  • - ようじょ - adopted daughter/foster daughter
  • - れつじょ - heroine
  • - ろうにゃくなんにょ | ろうじゃくだんじょ - men and women of all ages
  • せ - みこよせ - spiritism/necromancy/sorcery
  • - ごぜ - blind female beggar who sings or plays shamisen
  • - おんなじしん - herself
  • - ぎゅう | ぎふ - pimp/brothel tout
  • - めのわらべ | めのわらわ - girl
  • | - おやま | おんながた - male actor in female Kabuki roles
  • | - しょうじょ | おとめ - young lady/little girl/virgin/maiden/daughter
  • - いちめがさ - straw hat worn by women
  • - きじょ - noblewoman/lady | you (referring to a woman; epistolary style)
  • - しゅうじょ | しこめ | ぶおんな | ぶす | ブス - homely woman/plain-looking woman | female demon
  • - せんじょ | せんにょ | せんにゅ - fairy/nymph/elf
  • | - おんなやもめ - widow
  • - おんなしゅじん - mistress (of the house)/hostess/landlady/proprietress
  • | マグロ - マグロおんな | まぐろおんな - woman who lies flat during intercourse
  • | | - あいなめ | アイナメ - Hexagrammos otakii (species of greenling)
  • - めびな - Empress doll (in display with Emperor doll)
  • - おんなみょうり - joy of being born a woman
  • - としおんな - Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year
  • チック - おとめチック - girly/girlie/girlish
  • り - おんなっぷり - woman's looks or charm
  • 々しい | しい - めめしい - effeminate
  • - あおおんな - young girl unused to the ways of the world
  • | - めだき - the smaller waterfall (of the two)
  • - じょせいてき - feminine/effeminate
  • | | - みこ | ふじょ - shrine maiden/virgin consecrated to a deity | medium/sorceress
  • - いちじょ - daughter/the eldest daughter/woman
  • - にょうぼうこうこう - being devoted to one's wife/uxorious
  • | - まじょっこ | まじょこ - magical girl/young witch
  • - にょにんけっかい - prohibition against women entering a sacred area
  • - はやくじょゆう - bit-part actress/actress with a minor part
  • - じょせいめいし - feminine noun
  • - じょこうあいし - sad (tragic, pathetic) story (history) of factory girls in pre-WWII Japan
  • - じょちゅうぼうこう - domestic service/working as a housemaid
  • - じょけつ - brave woman/heroine/lady of character
  • っぽい - おんなっぽい - womanly/feminine/womanish/effeminate
  • 婿 - じょせい - one's son-in-law
  • - じょしょく | にょしょく | じょしき - woman's beauty or charms/love affair with a woman/lust for women
  • - にょうぼうてんか - husband being henpecked/house where the wife is the boss/petticoat government
  • - おんなで - female labor/female labour | hiragana/womans handwriting | woman in a family
  • - じょしぶ - girls' or women's division or section
  • - おんなけ | おんなっけ - female presence
  • - そくじょ - (your, his, her) daughter
  • - じょしせんよう - for the use of women only
  • - にょうご | にょご - court lady
  • - じょせいへんれき - one's history of love affairs with women
  • - じょかん | にょうかん | にょかん - court lady
  • り - にょたいもり - practice of eating sushi or sashimi off an unclad woman's body
  • - じょじょうふ | じょじょうぶ - brave woman
  • | り - まじょがり - witch hunt
  • - どうじょ - (little) girl
  • じらす | らす - じらすおんな - cock-teaser (woman who pretends to be "easy")
  • | | - みこ - God's son (in Christianity) | child of the emperor
  • | ら - かのじょら - they (females)/them
  • 殿 | 殿 - ごてんじょちゅう - waiting woman in a shogun or daimyo's palace
  • - はしため - lowly maidservant
  • - しょじょりん - virgin forest
  • - しょじょさく - one's maiden work
  • - びじょざくら - verbena
  • - だんじょひ - sex ratio
  • - しょじょほう - an untrodden peak
  • - しょじょち - virgin soil
  • - しょじょこうかい - maiden voyage
  • - さいじょ - one's wife/one's wife and daughter(s)
  • - ふじょぼうこう - rape
  • - じょせいこうほ - female candidate
  • - ごじょ - fifth daughter
  • - せわにょうぼう - perfectly dedicated wife
  • - こうなご | コウナゴ - young lancefish/young sand lance
  • - にょにんきんせい | にょにんきんぜい - prohibited to women (usu. for religious reasons)/no women admitted
  • - じょこう - female factory worker
  • | - おんなじょたい - female household/household consisting wholly of women
  • - おんなひでり - woman shortage
  • - じょせいがく - women's studies
  • ち - にょうぼうもち - married man
  • - おんなもの - women's goods
  • り - おんなざかり - peak of womanhood
  • い - おんなぎらい - misogyny
  • - にょごがしま - isle of women/women-only location
  • - じょしだいせい - female college student
  • - おんなもじ - woman's handwriting/hiragana
  • - おんなあるじ - female owner/proprietress/landlady
  • - じょけい | にょけい - female line/matrilinear
  • - じょせいかいほううんどう - women's liberation movement
  • - にょうぼうことば - secret language of court ladies
  • ち - おんなもち - for women
  • - おんなどうらく - womanizing/debauchery/philandering
  • - おんなばら - woman who has produced only daughters
  • | | - ひめがき - low fence
  • - おんなこども - women and children
  • - じょおうばち - queen bee
  • - おんなざか - the easier of two slopes
  • - じょてんいん - saleswoman/shopgirl
  • - じょせいかいほうろん - feminism
  • - じょろうや - brothel
  • り - おんなぶり - woman-like/feminine
  • - じょそんだんぴ - placing women above men
  • - じょけんろんしゃ - a feminist
  • - にじょ - second daughter
  • - じょしがくせい - female student
  • - おんなごころ - woman's heart/female instincts or psychology
  • - じょがっこう - girl's school
  • - じょせいか - feminization/feminisation
  • - にょうぼうやく - assistant/right-hand man
  • | - じょろうぐも | ジョロウグモ - Nephila clavata (an Oriental species of golden orb-weaving spider) | Argiope amoena (an Oriental species of orb-weaving spider) | wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi)
  • し - おんなごろし - lady-killer (i.e. a man who is popular with women)/knocking a woman dead (with sex appeal) | murderer of women | murder of women
  • - じょきゅう - waitress/hostess
  • - おんなぐせ - philandering
  • - よんじょ - fourth-born daughter
  • - ゆな - women who assist bathers at hot-springs resorts | bathhouse prostitute
  • - ぜんにょ - female believer
  • - おしかけにょうぼう - woman who forced her husband into marriage
  • - せいじょ - saint/holy woman
  • - しんにょ - female lay devotee | title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name
  • | まず | - うまずめ | せきじょ - barren (sterile) woman
  • - こいにょうぼう - one's dear wife
  • - ようじょ - enchantress/vamp
  • - あめおんな - woman whose presence seems to cause rain
  • - だんじょびょうどう - equal rights for both sexes/equality of the sexes
  • - あそびめ - prostitute
  • - じょしりょう - women's dormitory
  • - じょりゅうさっか - woman writer/lady writer/authoress
  • - しょうじょしょうせつ - story for young girls
  • - ふりょうしょうじょ - bad girl/juvenile delinquent
  • - しょくじょ - female weaver/Vega
  • - じょしだいがく - women's college
  • - おんなともだち - girlfriend/woman (lady) friend
  • - ゆきじょろう - snow fairy
  • - じょしこう - girls' school
  • - おんなたち - women/womenfolks
  • - しょじょせい - virginity/maidenhood/maidenhead
  • - じょせいがっしょう - female chorus
  • - ろうじょ - elderly woman/senior lady-in-waiting
  • | - さおとめ - young female rice planter/young girl
  • - じょおうあり - queen ant
  • れる - おんなとたわむれる - to flirt with a woman
  • ける - おんなにばける - to assume the shape of a woman/to change into a woman
  • - おんなのて - feminine handwriting
  • - おんなかぶき - girls' kabuki
  • 姿になる - おんなのすがたになる - to disguise oneself as a woman
  • - かたいおんな - chaste woman
  • - おんなごころとあきのそら - womans heart and autumn (fall) weather (are both fickle)
  • - いえでしょうじょ - runaway girl
  • - しょくじょせい - Vega
  • う - おんなにくるう - to run mad after a girl
  • - おんなのさが - the ways of women
  • わる - おんなとまじわる - to sleep with a woman
  • る - おんなのあじをしる - to have carnal knowledge (of a woman)
  • す - おんなをおかす - to rape a girl
  • - めなみ - the smaller waves
  • - もうじょ - eldest daughter
  • - かんじょ - court lady
  • - しりがるなおんな - wanton girl
  • - じゅんなしょうじょ - virgin/maiden pure in heart
  • - じょせいぐん - womens team
  • | - じょせいと - girl student/schoolgirl
  • - ちよじょ - name of a haiku poetess
  • - しりのかるいおんな - wanton girl
  • - しずのめ - woman of lowly birth
  • - じょりゅうぶんがくしゃ - lady of letters
  • - じゆうのめがみぞう - Statue of Liberty
  • - だんじょのべつ - distinction of sex
  • らす - びじょをはべらす - to be waited upon by a beauty
  • - まちのおんな - streetwalker