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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
男女
male-female
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
male-female
02
male and female
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 男女 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 男女 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
In that age, men and women wore similar hairstyles.
This building is a capsule hotel lodging men and women.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 男女.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 男女.
Directly before
- 的男女2
- 想到男女1
- 要男女1
- 她男女1
- 是男女1
Directly after
- 男女在1
- 男女薪金1
- 男女之1
- 男女生活1
- 男女都1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 男女
What does 男女 mean in Chinese?
男女 (nánnǚ) means male-female.
How do you pronounce 男女?
男女 is pronounced nánnǚ.
Is 男女 an HSK word?
男女 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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