Chinese symbol for “guy”
男生
nán shēng
schoolboy; male student; boy; guy (young adult male)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for guy is 男生 (nán shēng), defined as: schoolboy; male student; boy; guy (young adult male).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “guy”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 家伙 | jiā huo | household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal |
| 小子 | xiǎo zi | (coll.) boy; (derog.) joker |
| 男娃 | nán wá | (dialect) boy; guy |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 男生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 男人 | nán rén | a man; a male |
| 男子 | nán zǐ | a man; a male |
| 男性 | nán xìng | the male sex; a male |
| 男女 | nán nǚ | male-female; male and female |
| 男孩 | nán hái | boy |
| 男朋友 | nán péng you | boyfriend |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
See also: Japanese symbol for “guy”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.