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男

nán

male

Traditionally males (男) were the people who plowed (力) the fields (田).

Components
田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

力 meaning component

力  Meaning component

lì

  

power

Depicts a plow.

Evolution

男 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
男 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
男 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
男 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
男 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

男  

nán

male, man; son; baron; surname; male; Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ​děng​jué​wèi]; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 男
Freq.
Word
Meaning

男人

a man

男

male

男孩

boy

男子

a man

男朋友

boyfriend

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (0 verified)

舅 虜 甥 嬲

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤ[ə]m

nom

nán

man, male


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 86.6571% of movies

260th most common character in movies

602nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+7537

Shuowen

“男，丈夫也。从田，从力，言男用力於田也。”


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