Character Details
| male | Ascii: 30007 | w388 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanyu | Pinyin | Phonetics | Tone | Category | Alternative Sounds | ||
| 男 | nán | nan | 2 | 4 | |||
| Frequency | Equation | Components | Wikitionary | Picture | |||
| 327 | N/A | N/A | 男 link |  | |||
| Story | Notes | ||||||
| Male is seen here as muscles working in the field, in other words working in the rice fields is the work of the male who are usually stronger. This is more or less the meaning of the original Chinese character. | This character is a combination of 'field' and 'power'. In ancient times, men worked the fields. The character now refers to the masculinity associated with manual labour. | ||||||
| Examples | |||||||
| 1. This is the men's toilet | 2. --Research Pending-- | ||||||
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