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Gendered Violence in Chinese Characters

汉字中的性别暴力

A collections of the Chinese characters that encode gender bias, particularly the ones related to women.

Introuction

Chinese characters are not abstract letters.They are built from visible parts, each carrying meaning.

The radical “女”means "woman." It is also used as a building block inside many other characters.

This same component repeatedly appears in words with negative meanings which reflect cultural bias. There are many more characters follow the same pattern. Even neutral words related to women have been systematically stigmatized over time.

This site collects the Chinese characters that encode gender bias, particularly the ones related to women. For each character, the site will present: their meanings, historical origin (if available), and possible alternative characters (if available).

jián

lán

yāo

mèi

wàng

fáng

xián

niǎo

chī

biǎo

tuǒ

chāng

piáo

pīn

yín




References
Are there also stereotypes and gender-based violence in Chinese characters? They use "Nushu" and "Women's Words" to write language articles exclusively for women
Chinese-English Dictionary
漢字里的性別暴力與文化偏見