男 (naam4 | nan2) : man

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男

naam4

nan2

[1] [n] human male; man; boy; son [2] [n] baron

Stroke count: 7

Level: 1

Radical: 田 (#102)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

男

This word has been viewed 17012 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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男人 naam4 jan4*2 nan2 ren2 = man

男朋友 naam4 pang4 jau5 nan2 peng2 you5 = boyfriend

男仔 naam4 zai2 = boy 粵

男生 naam4 saang1 nan2 sheng1 = a schoolboy; a male student

男性 naam4 sing3 nan2 xing4 = male gender

男子 naam4 zi2 nan2 zi3 = a man, a male, male (person)

男友 naam4 jau5 nan2 you3 = male friend; boyfriend

男丁 naam4 ding1 = an able-bodied man

男孩兒 naam4 haai4 ji4 nan2 hair2 = boy 國

男人味 naam4 jan4*2 mei6 nan2 ren2 wei4 = masculine; man smell
See all 93 compounds (CantoDict reports 94 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 13 examples containing 男

你有冇男朋友呀? 粵
Do you have a boyfriend?

我介紹我男朋友畀你識粵
Let me introduce my boyfriend.
[lit. I introduce me boyfriend give you know.]

嘩！你個男朋友咁鬼樣衰㗎! 粵
Oh my god! Your boyfriend is so ugly!
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131797,131965#msg-131965]

有男人有一匹白色馬
There was once a man with a white horse.

個男仔挖起棵樹樁粵
The boy digs up a tree stump.
[Lit. [counter] man-child dig up [counter] tree-stump]

你哋呢，係咪有好多男朋友㗎粵
You must be popular with the boys!
[Lit. you [plural] [clause delimiter], is-or-is-it-not have many boyfriend [particle]]

《電車男》係封閉青年粵
The "train man" is a loner

有個男仔坐喺露台欄河度，似乎想跳樓噃粵
There's a man sitting on the barrier of the balcony as though he is about to jump off the building.

我以為有個攝影師做男朋友，佢一定會幫我影好多靚相，殊不知佢一張相都冇幫我影過。粵
I had the idea that by having a photographer as boyfriend, I would have many of my pictures taken. Little did I know that none of the photographs were of me.

今日成朝開籠雀噉梗係男朋友返咗嚟粵
She’s been talking non-stop the whole morning. Probably because the boyfriend has come back.
[Alternative (more literal) translation: She was singing the whole morning like a bird (not in captivity). The boyfriend must have returned to her.]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 男
Unicode code for this character: U+7537 (off-site link)

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