女 Woman

Radical Combination

• 女

  Woman

Meaning

Primary

Woman

Mnemonic

The radical for woman and the kanji for woman are exactly the same.

Hints

That means if you know your radicals well, you know the meaning of this kanji as well! How swell.

Readings

On’yomi

じょ, にょ, にょう

Kun’yomi

おんな, め

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

When you think of a woman, think of Jo-Anne (じょ), though she usually goes by just "Jo."

Hints

Whenever the reading じょ comes up, we will use the character Jo-Anne. She's quite a short woman, which is to help us differentiate じょ from じょう (who is the giant, oafish farmhand Joe). じょ is a smaller lady, じょう is a giant man.