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乾物女

简干物女 · 繁乾物女

Mandarin · pinyin gān wù nǚ

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

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乾: qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
物: wù · thing, substance, creature
女: nǚ · woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali)
干: gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried

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(neologism, slang) young, single woman who is uninterested in relationships and living a sloppy lifestyle