Dictionary › 女性

女性

nǚ xìng

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

女性 (nǚ xìng) means "woman; the female sex". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 女性 means

1. woman
2. the female sex

The characters in 女性

• 女nǚfemale; woman; daughter
• 性xìngnature; character; property

Example sentences

• 女性爱谈话。
  Women like to talk.
• 女性通常比男性长寿。
  Nǚxìng tōngcháng bǐ nánxìng chángshòu.
  Women commonly live longer than men.
• 参与者大部分是女性。
  Cānyǔzhě dàbùfēn shì nǚxìng.
  The participants were for the most part women.
• 你是位了不起的女性。
  You're a wonderful woman.
• 她是个有有魅力的女性。
  Tā shì gè yǒu yǒumèilì de nǚxìng.
  She is a charming woman.
• 嫌疑人是一位白人女性。
  Xiányírén shì yī wèi báirén nǚxìng.
  The suspect is a caucasian female.

Words starting with 女性

• 女性化nǚ xìng huàto feminize; feminization
• 女性主义nǚ xìng zhǔ yìfeminism
• 女性割礼nǚ xìng gē lǐfemale genital mutilation
• 女性厌恶nǚ xìng yàn wùmisogyny
• 女性贬抑nǚ xìng biǎn yìmisogyny

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nǚ xìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.