Dictionary › 男
男
nán
男 (nán) means "male; Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 位". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.
What 男 means
- bound formmale
- baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility {五等爵位|wǔ děng jué wèi}
Example sentences
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南男北女。Southern men, Northern women.
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那男人是谁？Who is that man?
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我是个男人。I am a man.
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男孩吃饱了。The boy was full.
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我们是男人。We are men.
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我们是男孩。We are boys.
Words starting with 男
- 男人nán réna man; a male; men
- 男生nán shēngschoolboy; male student; boy
- 男子nán zǐa man; a male
- 男孩nán háiboy
- 男女nán nǚmale-female; male and female
- 男性nán xìngthe male sex; a male
- 男朋友nán péng youboyfriend
- 男友nán yǒuboyfriend
- 男孩子nán hái ziboy
- 男士nán shìman; gentleman
- 男子汉nán zǐ hànman (i.e. manly, masculine)
- 男儿nán éra (real) man; boy; son
- 男方nán fāng(of a marriage) the bridegroom's side; the husband's side
- 男女老少nán nǚ lǎo shàomen, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages
- 男装nán zhuāngmen's clothes
- 男爵nán juébaron
- 男单nán dānmen's singles (in tennis, badminton etc)
- 男女关系nán nǚ guān xìman-woman connection; intimate relationship
- 男高音nán gāo yīntenor (singing voice); a tenor
- 男婴nán yīngmale baby
- 男童nán tóngboy; male child
- 男女平等nán nǚ píng děngequality of the sexes
- 男女老幼nán nǚ lǎo yòumen, women, young and old; everybody
- 男家nán jiāman's family (in marriage)
Words containing 男
- 少男少女shào nán shào nǚboys and girls; teenagers
- 少男shào nányoung, unmarried male; young guy
- 重男轻女zhòng nán qīng nǚto value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
- 大男子主义dà nán zǐ zhǔ yìmale chauvinism
- 型男xíng nánfashionable and good-looking guy (slang)
- 直男zhí nán(slang) heterosexual man; (slang) a "straight" man: direct and literal-minded, practical…
- 童男tóng nánvirgin male
- 处男chǔ nánvirgin (male)
- 长男zhǎng náneldest son
- 大男人dà nán rénvery masculine guy; a real man; (used ironically) a grown man
- 普信男pǔ xìn nán(neologism, attested by 2020) an ordinary guy who imagines he is God's gift to womankind
- 理工男lǐ gōng nángeek; techie
- 金正男Jīn Zhèng nánKim Jong-nam (1971-2017), the eldest son of Kim Jong-il 金正日
- 阿尔法男ā ěr fǎ nánalpha male
- 大男人主义dà nán rén zhǔ yìmale chauvinism
- 大男子主义者dà nán zǐ zhǔ yì zhěmale chauvinist
- 前男友qián nán yǒuex-boyfriend
- 善男信女shàn nán xìn nǚlay practitioners of Buddhism
- 阅男无数yuè nán wú shù(idiom) to have had relationships with many men
- 遗男yí nánorphan; posthumous son
- 异男yì nán(Taiwan) heterosexual man; straight man
- 好男不跟女斗hǎo nán bù gēn nǚ dòua real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
- 潜力股男人qián lì gǔ nán rénman with good prospects
- 软饭男ruǎn fàn nánkept man
Characters that look like 男
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 肖xiàosimilar; resembling; to resemble
- 芙fúused in 芙蓉
- 芜wúovergrown with weeds
- 芸yúncommon rue (Ruta graveolens)…
- 帛bósilk
- 酉yǒu10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the…
Sounds the same
Read nán, tone for tone, but written differently.
- 难difficult (to...); problem; difficulty
- 南south
- 楠Machilus nanmu; Chinese cedar; Chinese giant redwood
- 喃mumble in repetition
- 暔name of a country
- 諵mumble in repetition
- 侽old variant of 男
- 娚old variant of 喃
Where 男 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 2 Characters · Set 10 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
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