Radical 女

3 strokes

You might like to think of a particular woman when you visualize the stories with “woman” throughout the book, just as we have a particular “person” (who we’re calling “harry”). however “woman” appears as a part of far fewer characters than does “person”.

The “ū” sound here is like the “ū” in German or the “u” in the French word “tu”. Say “oo” and then, keeping your lips in the same position, try and say “ee”. Since we don’t have this sound in english, we just use an “oo” sound but have pouring rain in the pronunciation part of the story to indicate that it is really “ū” (you can think of the two dots above the “u” being rain drops). The rain-cloud icon will remind you to visualize the rain in the story. We will have more to say about these “ū” pronunciations later.

When drawing 女 watch the stroke order: the horizontal stroke is drawn last.

/ It is pouring with rain outside, so instead of going jogging the woman works out by running in a large treadmill wheel. Teddy uses the power it generates to cook his noodles!