干物女

Traditional form:

乾物女

Pinyin (reading):

gānwùnü

Definitions:

• single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna")

Characters:

• 干 - arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade
• 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
• 女 - woman, girl; female

Traditional characters:

• 乾 - arid, dry; to fertilize; to penetrate; heavenly generative principle (male)
• 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
• 女 - woman, girl; female