niáng

mother

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

良 sound component

  Sound component

liáng

  

good

Evolution

娘 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
娘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

niáng

mother; young girl; woman; wife; young lady; (coll.) effeminate

() 

niáng

variant of [niáng]

Most common words with 娘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

姑娘

girl

mother

新娘

bride

老娘

my old mother

伴娘

bridesmaid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 48.7906% of movies

681st most common character in movies

881st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5A18


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