宿舍 sù shè dormitory / dorm room / living quarters / hostel / CL:間|间[jian1] 四分之三 sì fēn zhī sān three quarters 营房 營房 yíng fáng barracks / living quarters syn 厮杀 廝殺 sī shā to fight at close quarters / to fight tooth and nail syn 女厕 女廁 nǚ cè women's restroom / women's toilet 短兵相接 duǎn bīng xiāng jiē lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom) / fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat / to fight at close quarters syn 妇联 婦聯 fù lián women's league / women's association 青楼 青樓 qīng lóu (literary) brothel / pleasure quarters 燕赵 燕趙 yān zhào Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers 南征北战 南征北戰 nán zhēng běi zhàn war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters syn 我们 我們 wǒ men we / us / ourselves / our syn 头巾 頭巾 tóu jīn cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban syn 弱小 ruò xiǎo small and weak / puny / the small and weak / children / women and children syn 女装 女裝 nǚ zhuāng women's clothes 女权 女權 nǚ quán women's rights 三八 sān bā International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节[Fu4 nu:3 jie2], 8th March / foolish / stupid 贞操 貞操 zhēn cāo (usually of women) chastity / virginity / virtue / honor / loyalty / moral integrity syn 祸水 禍水 huò shuǐ source of calamity (esp. of women) syn 贞节 貞節 zhēn jié chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy syn 艳福 艷福 yàn fú luck with women 酒色 jiǔ sè wine and women / color of wine / drunken expression 半边天 半邊天 bàn biān tiān half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk syn 仕女 shì nǚ court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women syn 女排 nǚ pái women's volleyball / abbr. for 女子排球 长衫 長衫 cháng shān long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao syn 妇幼 婦幼 fù yòu women and children 薄命 bó mìng to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky syn 妇女节 婦女節 fù nǚ jié International Women's Day (March 8) 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) 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) 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 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 闺 閨 guī small arched door / boudoir / lady's chamber / (fig.) women 妾 qiè concubine / I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women) syn 淑 shū (bound form) (of women) gentle / kind / lovely / admirable / (used in given names) / Taiwan pr. [shu2] 男女老少 nán nǚ lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages 男女老幼 nán nǚ lǎo yòu men, women, young and old / everybody 授受不亲 授受不親 shòu shòu bù qīn (in ancient times) no direct contact between men and women 闱 闈 wéi door to women's room / gate to palace syn 帏 幃 wéi curtain / women's apartment / tent 娅 婭 yà (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names) syn 帼 幗 guó cap worn by women / feminine 軿 píng curtained carriage used by women / to gather together / to assemble 南征北伐 nán zhēng běi fá war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters 东征西怨 東征西怨 dōng zhēng xī yuàn war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters 东征西讨 東征西討 dōng zhēng xī tǎo war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters 东讨西征 東討西征 dōng tǎo xī zhēng war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters 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 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 眷区 眷區 juàn qū married quarters / residential quarters for men with families 壸 壼 kǔn palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women 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 一二八事变 一二八事變 yī èr bā shì biàn Shanghai Incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai 南征北讨 南征北討 nán zhēng běi tǎo war on all sides (idiom) / fighting from all four quarters 带分数 帶分數 dài fēn shù mixed fraction / mixed number (i.e. with an integer part and a fraction part, e.g. four and three quarters) / see also: improper fraction 假分數|假分数[jia3 fen1 shu4] and proper fraction 真分數|真分数[zhen1 fen1 shu4] 工房 gōng fáng workshop / temporary housing for workers / workers' living quarters 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 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 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 