Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

奴: guy, slave

Also: manservant, fellow

JLPT N15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

又 carries the meaning · 女 carries meaning and sound

5 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ドdo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 奴隷どれいslave; servant
  • 農奴のうどserf

やつyatsu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 奴やつfellow; guy; chap

Also read やっこ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Grace and strength! This is the radical of the feminine, representing mothers, daughters, and the many roles women have played throughout history.”
More in the 女 woman story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
女

Also built on woman (女)

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The 女 family reads ジョ (jo); 奴 is read ド.

又

Also built on again (又)

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奴 gives its sound to

The family reading is ド (do). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ド

4 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · nú

Same form: 奴 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
奴 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
奴 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin nú most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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