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男

nán

HSK 2 Character

What 男 means

1. bound formmale
2. baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility {五等爵位|wǔ děng jué wèi}

Example sentences

• 南男北女。
  Southern men, Northern women.
• 那男人是谁？
  Who is that man?
• 我是个男人。
  I am a man.
• 男孩吃饱了。
  The boy was full.
• 我们是男人。
  We are men.
• 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