The piě diǎn stroke combines a somewhat straight version of piě (as in piě zhé) with a rather long version of diǎn. Additionally, this is the only case in which the diǎn stroke combines with another stroke.

The piě diǎn stroke is commonly associated with this important and ubiquitous character in Chinese:

Before moving on, notice that the stroke order here calls for the horizontal héng stroke to be made last. This order carries into all characters that incorporate 女 as a component.

This character is a common component of other frequently-used Chinese characters. For example, here 女 is combined with 子, which you already know, this combination of a woman and child signifying the essence of “goodness”:

Here’s another common character directly associated with femininity:

In the next character, 女 is placed under a “roof,” apparently signifying to the originators of the language the essence of a peaceful home:

To finish up, here’s another common character whose meaning bears little relation to either of its two components: