EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    maidservant; housemaid; maid

    Dated termSensitivesee お手伝いさん

    その劇で彼女は女中と女店員との二役を努めた。
    In the play she doubled the parts of a maid and shop girl.
  2. hostess (in a ryokan); waitress (in a traditional restaurant)

    Sensitive

  3. court lady

    Archaic

  4. lady

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languageArchaic

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

woman, female

Kun
おんな
On
ジョニョニョウ
Strokes
3
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
151 of 2500
Radical
woman
WaniKani
Level 1

Built from

Used in names as

おなつき

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-3-4SKIP code
3e0.1The Kanji Dictionary
4040.0Four corner code
1769deroo
5973Unicode hex code
1-29-87JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1185Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1173New Nelson (John Haig)
3418New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4226Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2135Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2884Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
98Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
102Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
178A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
114Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
62Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
6036Morohashi
35A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
102Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
102Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
32sakade
42Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
41henshall3
19Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
60crowley
68Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.13busy_people
423Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
99Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
nu:3, ru3Pinyin reading
nyeo, yeoKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
1WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

in, inside, middle, mean, center

Kun
なかうちあた.る
On
チュウ
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
11 of 2500
Radical
line
WaniKani
Level 2

Built from

Used in names as

あたるかなえ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-4-3SKIP code
0a4.40The Kanji Dictionary
5000.6Four corner code
1655deroo
4e2dUnicode hex code
1-35-70JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
28New Nelson (John Haig)
3451New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4262Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2150Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2902Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
39Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
39Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
13A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
75Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
31Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
73Morohashi
55A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
28Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
28Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
23sakade
7Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
26henshall3
32Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
12crowley
33Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.3busy_people
16Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
39Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhong1, zhong4Pinyin reading
jungKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
2WaniKani level