贞操 貞操 zhēn cāo (usually of women) chastity / virginity / virtue / honor / loyalty / moral integrity 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 失身 shī shēn to lose one's virginity / to lose one's chastity 童贞 童貞 tóng zhēn virginity / chastity syn 破处 破處 pò chǔ to break the hymen / to lose virginity 破瓜 pò guā (of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64 破身 pò shēn to lose one's virginity 献处 獻處 xiàn chǔ to give one's virginity to 童身 tóng shēn undefiled body / virginity / virgin 拿一血 ná yī xuè (gaming) to get first blood / (slang) to take (sb's) virginity 全球妇女环境大会 全球婦女環境大會 Global Women's Assembly on Environment: Women as the Voice for the Environment / Global Women's Assembly on Environment 赤贫妇女问题讨论会 赤貧婦女問題討論會 Seminar on Women in Extreme Poverty, Integration of Women's Concerns in National Development Planning / Seminar on Women in Extreme Poverty 女足 nǚ zú women's soccer / women's football / women's soccer team 妇联 婦聯 fù lián women's league / women's association 燕赵 燕趙 yān zhào Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers 女厕 女廁 nǚ cè women's restroom / women's toilet 联合国支援消除对妇女暴力行为信托基金 United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women / Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women 支援消除对妇女暴力行为信托基金 United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women / Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women 妇女参与建设和平网 Women in Peacebuilding Network / Women in Peacebuilding Program 妇女为妇女争取人权协会－新道路 Women for Women's Human Rights: New Ways / WWHR – New Ways 加沙妇女事务中心 Women's Affairs Center - Gaza Women's Affairs Center 第叁次妇女问题世界会议 第三次婦女問題世界會議 World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace / Third World Conference on Women 联合国促进两性平等和增强妇女权能署 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women / UN-Women 妇女署 fù rǔ shǔ United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women / UN-Women 第四次妇女问题世界会议 第四次婦女問題世界會議 Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace / Fourth World Conference on Women 老年女性 elderly women / older women 老年妇女 老年婦女 elderly women / older women 难民妇女和儿童问题妇女委员会 難民婦女和兒童問題婦女委員會 Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children 南亚－北欧女新闻工作者网络－妇女观察 南亞－北歐女新聞工作者網絡－婦女觀察 South Asian-Nordic Network of Women Journalists - Women Watch 亚非赋予妇女经济权力论坛 亞非賦予婦女經濟權力論壇 Asia-Africa Forum on the economic empowerment of women / Bangkok Forum on the economic empowerment of women 壸 壼 kǔn palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women BM B M Brandy Melville, fashion brand known for clothes targeted at very slim young women / (generic usage) fashions for petite young women 女篮 女籃 nǚ lán women's basketball / women's basketball team 我们 我們 wǒ men we / us / ourselves / our syn 女装 女裝 nǚ zhuāng women's clothes 女排 nǚ pái women's volleyball / abbr. for 女子排球 三八 sān bā International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节[Fu4 nu:3 jie2], 8th March / foolish / stupid 弱小 ruò xiǎo small and weak / puny / the small and weak / children / women and children syn 妇幼 婦幼 fù yòu women and children 妇女节 婦女節 fù nǚ jié International Women's Day (March 8) syn 头巾 頭巾 tóu jīn cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban syn 小可爱 小可愛 xiǎo kě ài cutie / sweetie / (Tw) camisole (women's garment) 女单 女單 nǚ dān women's singles (in tennis, badminton etc) 长衫 長衫 cháng shān long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao syn 艳福 艷福 yàn fú luck with women 半边天 半邊天 bàn biān tiān half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk syn 女权 女權 nǚ quán women's rights 采花 採花 cǎi huā to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women 女双 女雙 nǚ shuāng women's doubles (in tennis, badminton etc) 祸水 禍水 huò shuǐ source of calamity (esp. of women) syn 猎艳 獵艷 liè yàn to chase women / to express oneself in a pompous flowery style 来潮 來潮 lái cháo (of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period syn 三八节 三八節 sān bā jié International Women's Day (March 8) syn 仕女 shì nǚ court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women syn 酒色 jiǔ sè wine and women / color of wine / drunken expression 薄命 bó mìng to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky syn 女人家 nǚ rén jia women (in general) syn 红色娘子军 紅色孃子軍 hóng sè niáng zi jūn Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964 妇女联合会 婦女聯合會 fù nǚ lián hé huì women's union 男女授受不亲 男女授受不親 nán nǚ shòu shòu bù qīn men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius) 巾 jīn towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50 syn 淑 shū (bound form) (of women) gentle / kind / lovely / admirable / (used in given names) / Taiwan pr. [shu2] 娅 婭 yà (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names) syn 妾 qiè concubine / I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women) syn 闺 閨 guī small arched door / boudoir / lady's chamber / (fig.) women 闱 闈 wéi door to women's room / gate to palace syn 帼 幗 guó cap worn by women / feminine 帏 幃 wéi curtain / women's apartment / tent 軿 píng curtained carriage used by women / to gather together / to assemble 三姑六婆 sān gū liù pó women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom) 三从四德 三從四德 sān cóng sì dé Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 syn 偷鸡摸狗 偷雞摸狗 tōu jī mō gǒu to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs syn 沉湎酒色 chén miǎn jiǔ sè to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom) / overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher 牝鸡司晨 牝雞司晨 pìn jī sī chén female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom) / a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. 牝鸡牡鸣 牝雞牡鳴 pìn jī mǔ míng female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom) / a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. 红颜薄命 紅顏薄命 hóng yán bó mìng beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom) 酒色之徒 jiǔ sè zhī tú follower of wine and women / dissolute person 秀色可餐 xiù sè kě cān a feast for the eyes (idiom) / (of women) gorgeous / graceful / (of scenery) beautiful 授受不亲 授受不親 shòu shòu bù qīn (in ancient times) no direct contact between men and women 男尊女卑 nán zūn nǚ bēi to regard men as superior to women (idiom) 绿惨红愁 綠慘紅愁 lǜ cǎn hóng chóu (of women) grieved appearance (idiom) / sorrowful mien 步摇 步搖 bù yáo dangling ornament worn by women 衵 nì women's undergarments 杨维 楊維 yáng wéi Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist 三个女人一个墟 三個女人一個墟 sān gè nǚ rén yī gè xū three women makes a crowd 三个女人一台戏 三個女人一臺戲 sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì three women are enough for a drama (idiom) 四德 sì dé four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 国际妇女节 國際婦女節 guó jì fù nǚ jié International Women's Day (March 8) 女子参政权 女子參政權 nǚ zǐ cān zhèng quán women's suffrage 女书 女書 nǚ shū nüshu writing, a phonetic syllabary for Yao ethnic group 瑤族|瑶族[Yao2 zu2] dialect designed and used by women in Jiangyong county 江永縣|江永县[Jiang1 yong3 xian4] in southern Hunan 她经济 她經濟 tā jīng jì "she-economy" reflecting women's economic contribution / euphemism for prostitution-based economy 妇女能顶半边天 婦女能頂半邊天 fù nǚ néng dǐng bàn biān tiān Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society 妇女运动 婦女運動 fù nǚ yùn dòng women's movement / feminism 援助交际 援助交際 yuán zhù jiāo jì Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors 敛衽 斂衽 liǎn rèn old-fashioned women's obeisance / Taiwan pr. [lian4 ren4] 欧里庇得斯 歐里庇得斯 ōu lǐ bì dé sī Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc 男人来自火星，女人来自金星 男人來自火星，女人來自金星 nán rén lái zì huǒ xīng , nǚ rén lái zì jīn xīng Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (book by John Gray) 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 花黄 花黃 huā huáng yellow flower (cosmetic powder used on women's forehead in former times) 