Meaning
婦女 (ふじょ, fujo) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “the fair sex; woman”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
その 法律は 婦女を 守るためのものだ
That law is there to protect women.
かつては上流階級の婦女子の嗜みでもあった。
It used to be an accomplishment for uppper class women as well.
首実検の前には、武士の婦女子により首に死化粧が施された。
Prior to making the identification of the severed head, the samurai womenfolk would apply funereal cosmetics to the head.
邦人犠牲者の中には清国兵によって犠牲となった婦女子もあった。
Some Japanese victims were women and children killed by Qing soldiers.
官戸の婦女と官婢の中から女医が採用される規定が医疾令にみえる。
According to an ancient Japanese medical law in the early 8th century (known as the "Ishitsuryo"), female doctors were chosen from among kanko and kunuhi women.
美男の八代目市川團十郎が水入りを演じた際、天水桶の水を江戸中の婦女子が買いもとめたという。
When good-looking Danjuro ICHIKAWA VIII performed Mizuiri, all the women and girls wanted to buy the water in the barrel.
当初は男子のみを対象としていたが、聴講を望む婦女子多く、障子越しの別室にて拝聴を許された。
Initially it was only for the men; then women were allowed to listen to the lecture in another room behind the shoji (partitions that can divide the interior of a building into separate rooms) since many women desired to attend.
体力に劣る婦女子や老人でも楽に施肥装置を傾動させて残留肥料排出作業を行うことができるようにすること。
To enable the operation for discharging remaining fertilizer by turning a fertilizing device to be carried out by a woman, a child or an old person having declined physical strength.
しかし、降伏後、唐軍の軍紀は乱れ、百済の遺民の壮丁、婦女子が殺戮され、強姦されるのを黙視できなくなる。
After the surrender, however, discipline in the Tang army became corrupted and Kokushi could not stand to see men, women, and children left behind in Baekje to be killed or raped.
婦女身得度者、即現婦女身而為説法) so that gradually it has been assumed to have no sexuality.妹背山婦女庭訓(いもせやまおんなていきん)は、人形浄瑠璃及び歌舞伎の演目。
"Imose-yama Onna Teikin" (Proper Upbringing of a Young Lady at Mount Imose) is a play of Ningyo Joruri (traditional Japanese puppet theater) and Kabuki.
しかし、経典などでは釈迦が観音に向かって「善男子よ」と呼びかけ、また「観音大士」という言葉もあることから、本来は男性であったと考えられているが、観音経では「婦女身得度者、即現婦女身而為説法」と、女性には女性に変身して説法するともあるため、次第に性別は無いものとして捉えられるようになった。
Because Shaka calls Kannon 'zennanshi, a man who believes Buddhism' in Sutras and there is a word 'Kannon Daishi,' it was originally regarded as a male; however, in Kannon-gyo Sutra it gives a sermon with a feminine appearance to women (