Female (pinyin: nǐ) is a kind of word (commonly used word) in the General Standard of Chinese. This word first appeared in Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Shang inscriptions. It is pictographic, and its ancient glyph looks like a person, with his knees bent and his arms crossed on his chest. The original meaning is woman, woman, as opposed to "man", and later it is extended to a wife who treats her daughter as a person.
Women are one of the radicals of Chinese characters, and most Chinese characters with "women" as the signifier are related to women, which can be divided into six categories: kinship, such as wife, daughter, aunt and sister. Status, industry, age, such as: slave, maid, concubine, media. Surnames, such as: Jiang, Ji, Yao, Won. Get married and get pregnant, for example: get married, get married and get pregnant. Posture, such as: beautiful, charming, elegant, gentle. Virtues (mostly derogatory), such as jealousy, hindrance and stupidity.
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Specifically, first write an apostrophe in the lower left corner, then write an apostrophe in the upper right corner, and finally write a horizontal line. This kind of stroke order inherits Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and other ancient characters, and has certain historical and cultural value.
1, glyph evolution:
The female characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen are the images of sitting women, representing women. In official script, the upper part of female characters becomes two crossed hands, and the lower part becomes a cross. The female characters in regular script continue the glyph of official script, but the strokes are more simplified.
2. Variant characters:
The variants of female characters are "symbol" and "ghost", which are gradually replaced by female characters in historical evolution.
3. Word combination:
In Chinese, female characters often form words with other words, such as "woman", "wife" and "daughter". These words reflect the role and status of women in the family and society.
4. Calligraphy:
Nvshu has certain applications in calligraphy, such as regular script, running script and cursive script. Different calligraphy styles and schools have different ways to express the strokes and structure of female calligraphy.
5. Gender discrimination:
Although female characters represent women, in some cases, female characters may be used to represent discrimination against women. Therefore, when using female characters, we should pay attention to avoid the tendency of gender discrimination.