娘
niáng HSK3

mother

娘 niáng
mother noun
mother; female parent

她回老家看望爹娘。

tā huí lǎo​jiā kàn​wàng diē niáng.

She went back to her hometown to visit her parents.

effeminate noun
(colloquial) effeminate; sissy

他说话的样子有点娘。

tā shuō​huà de yàng​zi yǒu​diǎn niáng.

The way he speaks is a bit effeminate.

young lady noun
a young woman or girl

他在街上遇见一个卖花的小娘。

tā zài jiē shàng yù​jiàn yī gè mài huā de xiǎo niáng.

He met a young flower girl on the street.

Frequency
Character
Written text
881st most common 197.8 per million
Movie subtitles
681st most common 194.6 per million appears in 49% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
55.9 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
45.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5A18

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)