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When I check 女子on google I have found two contrasting definitions:

There is : <https://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20%E5%A5%BD>

Which states that the meanings are "fond, pleasing, like something"

But there is also: <https://teamjapanese.com/girl-in-japanese/>

Which states that one of the ways for saying "girl" is Joshi which uses the
kanji 女子

Are the uses cases depending on context?
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meaning nuances kanji
Differences in the meaning for 女子
好 and 女子 are two different words. 好 is a single character and is commonly read
as 好{す}き, 好{この}む, or 好{こう}物. The meaning, as you've defined, is "fond,
pleasing, like something".

女子 are two separate characters 女 and 子, and since 女 means female or woman and
子 means child, 女子 means a young girl and is read as 女{じょ}子{し}

Yes the character 好 is made from the characters 女 and 子, depicting a
woman/mother 女 being very fond of her child 子.

Sidenote: In Chinese the same character 好, besides the meaning of like/fond,
also has the meaning "good." That's why some people explain the origin of this
character as "It's good for women to bear children, so 女 + 子 is good." Just
saying, you might find this alternate version when you look around online.
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