女红

女紅
nǚgōng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 needlework
  2. 2 women's needlework, embroidery and weaving

Examples

HSK 3
Jiùshí nǚháizi cóngxiǎo jiù yào xuéxí nǚgōng.
In the old days, girls had to learn needlework from an early age.
HSK 7-9
Wàipó de nǚgōng hěn hǎo, huì xiù gèzhǒng huāniǎo.
Grandma is very good at needlework and can embroider all kinds of flowers and birds.

Tips

mistakes
红 is read gōng here, a reading it has in no other common word, and saying hóng is a classic slip. It stood for 工 "work", and the word is also written 女工, which today usually means a female worker.

Stroke Order

女 nǚ
红 hóng