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11 strokes

slave girl

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Character information

Pinyin
Meaning
slave girl; maid servant
Strokes
11
HSK level
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰女卑

A humble 卑 woman 女; 卑 also provides the pronunciation

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

Parts are arranged left to right.

How to write step by step

11 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with

Common words using — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

slave servant

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slave girl; servant girl

Open 婢女 page →

servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning

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