男“male; man” Kanjiotoko / dan
How to write 男
Meaning and readings
Meaning
male; man
Onyomi (音読み)
- だん dan
- なん nan
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- おとこ otoko
- お o
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
あんないい男そうそういないぞ！！
There aren't many blokes that nice!
男 (おとこ)
男子学生たちはひっきりなしにふざけあっていた。
The schoolboys teased each other endlessly.
男子 (だんし)
トムはあまり男らしくない。
Tom isn't very manly.
男らしく (おとこらしく)
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