暴力 bào lì violence / force / violent syn 风暴 風暴 fēng bào storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc) syn 强暴 強暴 qiáng bào violent / to rape syn 突击 突擊 tū jī sudden and violent attack / assault / fig. rushed job / concentrated effort to finish a job quickly syn 行凶 行兇 xíng xiōng violent crime / to commit a violent act (assault or murder) syn 猛烈 měng liè fierce / violent / vigorous / intense syn 剧烈 劇烈 jù liè violent / acute / severe / fierce syn 凶猛 兇猛 xiōng měng fierce / violent / ferocious syn 调戏 調戲 tiáo xì to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities syn 女强人 女強人 nǚ qiáng rén successful career woman / able woman syn 毙命 斃命 bì mìng to meet violent death / to get killed syn 惨死 慘死 cǎn sǐ to die tragically / to meet with a violent death 死于非命 死於非命 sǐ yú fēi mìng violent death (idiom) / to die in a disaster / an unnatural death syn 迅猛 xùn měng quick and violent syn 凶悍 兇悍 xiōng hàn violent / fierce and tough / shrewish (woman) syn 产妇 產婦 chǎn fù woman recuperating after childbirth / woman in childbirth syn 狂飙 狂飆 kuáng biāo hurricane / violent reform or revolution / violent movement or force syn 鏖战 鏖戰 áo zhàn bitter fighting / a violent battle syn 暴烈 bào liè violent / fierce syn 姑奶奶 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach 暴风骤雨 暴風驟雨 bào fēng zhòu yǔ violent wind and rainstorm / hurricane / tempest syn 巾帼 巾幗 jīn guó woman / woman's headdress (ancient) syn 女杰 女傑 nǚ jié woman of distinction / a woman to be admired or respected syn 豪雨 háo yǔ violent rain (e.g. due to monsoon or typhoon) / cloudburst syn 三级片 三級片 sān jí piàn third category movie (containing sexual or violent content) 慰安妇 慰安婦 wèi ān fù comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu") 生猛 shēng měng full of life / violent / brave / fresh (of seafood) 娉婷 pīng tíng (literary) (of a woman) to have a graceful demeanor / beautiful woman syn 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman 暴力犯罪 bào lì fàn zuì violent crime 非命 fēi mìng unnatural death / violent death 狂 kuáng mad / wild / violent syn 铁 鐵 tiě iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang) syn 猛 měng ferocious / fierce / violent / brave / suddenly / abrupt / (slang) awesome syn 暴 bào sudden / violent / cruel / to show or expose / to injure syn 激 jī to arouse / to incite / to excite / to stimulate / sharp / fierce / violent syn 横 橫 héng horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent syn 飙 飆 biāo whirlwind / violent wind 恶浪 惡浪 è làng violent wave / fierce billow / fig. depraved force 横暴 橫暴 hèng bào brutal / violent syn 鏖 áo violent fighting 婧 jìng (literary) (of a woman) slender / delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented 女 nǚ female / woman / daughter syn 太太 tài tai married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 妹妹 mèi mei younger sister / young woman / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 女性 nǚ xìng woman / the female sex syn 白人 bái rén white man or woman / Caucasian 美女 měi nǚ beautiful woman syn 阿姨 ā yí maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 女子 nǚ zǐ woman / female syn 出门 出門 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married syn 温柔 溫柔 wēn róu gentle and soft / tender / sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) syn 老人 lǎo rén old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents syn 妇女 婦女 fù nǚ woman syn 主妇 主婦 zhǔ fù housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess syn 粉色 fěn sè pink / white / erotic / beautiful woman / powdered (with make-up) syn 孕妇 孕婦 yùn fù pregnant woman syn 妖精 yāo jing evil spirit / alluring woman syn 淑女 shū nǚ wise and virtuous woman / lady syn 美人 měi rén beautiful woman / belle syn 尤物 yóu wù rarity / rare object / rare person / extraordinarily beautiful woman syn 老太婆 lǎo tài pó old woman (at times contemptuous) syn 献身 獻身 xiàn shēn to commit one's energy to / to devote oneself to / to sacrifice one's life for / (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to syn 大姐 dà jiě big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) syn 月经 月經 yuè jīng menstruation / a woman's period syn 佳人 jiā rén beautiful woman syn 苗条 苗條 miáo tiao (of a woman) slim / slender / graceful syn 老人家 lǎo rén jiā polite term for old woman or man syn 婆娘 pó niáng woman (derog.) syn 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 妇人 婦人 fù rén married woman syn 糟蹋 zāo tà to waste / to spoil / to ruin / to wreck / to insult / to humiliate / to defile (a woman) / to rape / also pr. [zao1ta5] syn 老奶奶 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman syn 大妈 大媽 dà mā father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) syn 夏娃 xià wá Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Cantonese 夏娃 {Haa6waa1}) 儿女 兒女 ér nǚ children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) syn 第三者 dì sān zhě sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list syn 女工 nǚ gōng working woman / variant of 女紅|女红[nu:3 gong1] 娘家 niáng jia married woman's parents' home syn 嫁人 jià rén (of a woman) to get married / to take a husband syn 伯母 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 老处女 老處女 lǎo chǔ nǚ unmarried old woman / spinster 身形 shēn xíng figure (esp. a woman's) syn 窈窕 yǎo tiǎo (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined / comely / (esp.) slender / slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded syn 过门 過門 guò mén to pass through a doorway / (of a woman) to marry / orchestral music interlude in an opera syn 贵妇 貴婦 guì fù upper-class woman / lady (old) syn 红颜 紅顏 hóng yán a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks syn 芳心 fāng xīn the affection, or heart, of a young woman 身段 shēn duàn a woman's physique / figure / posture on stage syn 娘子 孃子 niáng zǐ (dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman syn 标致 標致 biāo zhi (of a woman) beautiful / pretty syn 露点 露點 lù diǎn dew point / (coll.) (of a woman) to expose one of the three areas (nipples and genitals) 大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) syn 出嫁 chū jià to get married (of woman) syn 野花 yě huā wildflower / woman of easy virtue 闺女 閨女 guī nu: maiden / unmarried woman / daughter syn 母老虎 mǔ lǎo hǔ tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen 