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女の人
おんなのひと
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woman
Onna no hito is 女 (onna, “female person, woman”) plus の (no) plus 人 (hito, “person”).
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In a sentence
あの女の人は誰ですか。
Who is that woman?
女の人が私に道を尋ねた。
A woman asked me for directions.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Phrase consisting of 女 (onna, “female person, woman”) + の (no, appositive particle) + 人 (hito, “person”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 女の人 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.