Chinese symbol for “spinster”
老处女
lǎo chǔ nǚ
Traditional: 老處女
unmarried old woman; spinster
The closest CC-CEDICT match for spinster is 老处女 (lǎo chǔ nǚ), defined as: unmarried old woman; spinster.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 老处女.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老师 (老師) | lǎo shī | teacher |
| 老婆 | lǎo pó | (coll.) wife |
| 老板 | lǎo bǎn | variant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn) |
| 老人 | lǎo rén | old man or woman; the elderly |
| 老公 | lǎo gōng | (coll.) husband |
| 处理 (處理) | chǔ lǐ | to handle; to deal with; to punish |
| 处于 (處於) | chǔ yú | to be in (some state, position, or condition) |
| 到处 (到處) | dào chù | everywhere |
| 女人 | nǚ rén | woman |
See also: Japanese symbol for “spinster”.
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.