女界

女界

Chinese

		female; woman; daughter	boundary; scope; extent boundary; scope; extent; circles; group; kingdom (taxonomy)
simp. and trad. (女界)		女	界

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǚjiè

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄩˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): neoi⁵ gaai³
• Min Dong (BUC): nṳ̄-gái

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nǚjiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄩˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: neujieh
    • IPA ^(key): /ny²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: neoi⁵ gaai³
    • Yale: néuih gaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: noey⁵ gaai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: nêu⁵ gai³
    • IPA ^(key): /nɵy̯¹³ käːi̯³³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: nṳ̄-gái
    • IPA ^(key): /nˡy³³⁻⁵⁵ ^(k-)ɑi²¹³/

Noun

女界

1. (obsolete) woman; female; especially women in a collective sense (“womankind; women's world”)

   • 出席的人，縣長以外，為縣農民協會、縣總工會、縣商民協會、縣女界聯合會、縣教職員聯合會、縣學生聯合會以及國民黨縣黨部的代表們。 [MSC, trad.]
     出席的人，县长以外，为县农民协会、县总工会、县商民协会、县女界联合会、县教职员联合会、县学生联合会以及国民党县党部的代表们。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 毛澤東選集 (1991). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Chūxí de rén, xiànzhǎng yǐwài, wéi xiàn nóngmín xiéhuì, xiàn zǒnggōnghuì, xiàn shāngmín xiéhuì, xiàn nǚjiè liánhéhuì, xiàn jiàozhíyuán liánhéhuì, xiàn xuéshēng liánhéhuì yǐjí Guómíndǎng xiàn dǎngbù de dàibiǎomen. [Pinyin]

     Besides the magistrate himself, the people attending are the representatives of the county peasant association, trade union council, merchant association, women's association, school staff association, student association and Kuomintang headquarters.

2. (Min Dong) woman, female
3. (Cantonese) female toilet

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 女人 (“woman”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		女子
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		女子, 女士, 女人, 女生, 女性, 婦女, 婦人
Mandarin	Beijing	女的, 娘們兒
	Taiwan	女生
	Jinan	女人, 女的, 娘們兒
	Xi'an	女人, 女的
	Wuhan	女的, 女將, 姑娘婆婆
	Chengdu	女的, 女人, 婆娘
	Yangzhou	女人家
	Hefei	女的, 奶奶們
Cantonese	Guangzhou	女人, 婆乸
	Hong Kong	女人, 婆乸
	Yangjiang	妹仔, 夫娘
Gan	Nanchang	女人, 女個
Hakka	Meixian	女個, 婦人家
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	細妹人, 婦人家, 餔娘人
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	細妹人, 婦人家
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	細妹人, 婦人家, 餔娘人
	Dongshi (Dabu)	細妹人, 婦人家
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	細妹人, 婦人家, 餔娘人
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	妹子人, 夫娘人
Jin	Taiyuan	女人, 女的
Min Bei	Jian'ou	阿娘人, 婦女人
Min Dong	Fuzhou	諸娘人, 女界
Min Nan	Xiamen	查某, 查某人, 婦人人, 諸娘 dated, 諸娘人 dated
	Quanzhou	查某, 查某人, 婦人人, 諸娘 dated, 諸娘人 dated
	Zhangzhou	查某, 查某人, 婦人人, 諸娘 dated, 諸娘人 dated
	Taipei	查某, 查某人, 婦人人
	Penang	查某
	Philippines (Manila)	查某, 查某人
	Chaozhou	諸娘
Wu	Suzhou	女人
	Wenzhou	女嘅, 老人客
Xiang	Changsha	女的, 女人家, 堂客, 堂客們
	Shuangfeng	女人家, 堂客們

Antonyms

• 男界

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
女	界

Noun

女界

1. Hán tự form of nữ giới (“woman, female”).