Word.ws English Dictionary

shengnu

shengnu is the alternative spelling of sheng nu.

Meaning of sheng nu

Noun

sheng nu (plural sheng nu)

  1. (derogatory) A woman in her mid- to late twenties and not yet married, particularly an unmarried successful businesswoman.
    • The increasing prevalence of shengnü in China has boosted the number of shengnan – leftover men.2010 Schott, Ben (15 March 2010). "Leftover Ladies & 3S Women". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2013.

Forms of shengnu

pluralshengnu

Questions about shengnu

What is shengnu the alternative spelling of?
Shengnu is the alternative spelling of sheng nu.

Words near shengnu in the dictionary

  1. sheng nu
  2. sheng nus
  3. sheng nü
  4. Shenga Bjemi
  5. shengnan
  6. shengnu
  7. shengnü
  8. shengs
  9. Shengsi
  10. shengyuan
  11. Shenhsi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shengnu (page history and authors); sheng nu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shengnu.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shengnu. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.