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女士

nǚ shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Measure word 个、位

女士 (nǚ shì) means "lady". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 女士 means

1. lady
2. madam
3. Miss
4. Ms

The characters in 女士

• 女nǚfemale; woman; daughter
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Example sentences

• 女士优先。
  Nǚshìyōuxiān.
  Ladies first.
• 女士优先!
  Nǚshì yōuxiān!
  Ladies first!
• 我是位女士。
  I'm a lady.
• 女士们身着晚礼服。
  Nǚshì men shēnzhuó wǎnlǐfú.
  The ladies were in evening dress.
• 他向那位女士问好。
  He saluted the lady.
• 那边的两位女士是谁？
  Nàbian de liǎng wèi nǚshì shì shéi?
  Who are the two women over there?

Words starting with 女士

• 女士优先nǚ shì yōu xiānLadies first!

Where 女士 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Clothing & Accessories (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nǚ shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.