烈女

Chinese

		ardent; intense; split ardent; intense; split; crack; rend	female; woman; daughter
trad. (烈女)		烈	女
simp. #(烈女)		烈	女

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liènǚ

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄋㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lit⁶ neoi⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liènǚ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄋㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liènyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: lieh⁴-nü³
    • Yale: lyè-nyǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liehneu
    • Palladius: ленюй (lenjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛ⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lit⁶ neoi⁵
    • Yale: liht néuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lit⁹ noey⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lid⁶ nêu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːt̚² nɵy̯¹³/

Noun

烈女

1. heroine, female martyr
2. (neo-Confucianism) a woman who commits suicide after her husband or fiancé's death rather than remarry, or who dies preserving her chastity

Japanese

Kanji in this term
烈	女
れつ Grade: S	じょ Grade: 1
on'yomi

Noun

烈(れつ)女(じょ) • (retsujo) 

1. faithful woman with a strong will
   • 1920, 菊池寛, 真珠夫人:

     瑠(る)璃(り)子(こ)は、昂(こう)然(ぜん)と現(げん)代(だい)の烈(れつ)女(じょ)と云(い)つてもいゝやうに、美(うつく)しく勇(いさ)ましかつた。

     Ruriko wa, kōzen to gendai no retsujo to itte mo ii yō ni, utsukushiku isamashikatta.

     (please add an English translation of this example)