雌
雌 — ja
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 암컷 자
- Romanization
- ja
- English
- female; feminine; gentle, soft
- Mandarin
- cí
- Japanese on'yomi
- シ, セイ, サイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- め- めす めん
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,951 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 隹 (172, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+96CC
Parts that make up 雌
How 雌 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 雌 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 此, 隹.
Korean example words with 雌
- 자웅雌雄 Korean gloss: 승부, 우열, 강약 따위를 비유적으로 이르는 말
- 자웅석雌雄石 Korean gloss: 남자와 여자의 생식기 모양을 닮은 돌
- 자견雌犬 Korean gloss: 개의 암컷.
- 자마雌馬 Korean gloss: 말의 암컷.
- 자봉雌蜂 Korean gloss: 벌의 암컷.
- 자성雌性 Korean gloss: 암컷의 성질.
- 자접雌蝶 Korean gloss: 나비의 암컷.
- 자추雌雛 Korean gloss: 병아리의 암컷.
- 자복雌伏 Korean gloss: 가만히 숨어 지냄.
- 자주雌株 Korean gloss: 암꽃이 피는 포기.
- 웅자雄雌 Korean gloss: 수컷과 암컷을 아울러 이르는 말.
- 자핵雌核 Korean gloss: 자성 배우자가 갖고 있는 세포핵.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 雌
- 雌めす female (animal, plant)
- 雌雄しゆう male and female (animals); the two sexes; victory and defeat
- 雌花めばな female flower; pistillate flower
- 雌牛めうし cow; heifer
- 雌性しせい female
- 雌伏しふく lying low (and awaiting one's chance); biding one's time; submitting at first (to then strike later)
- 雌鳥めんどり female bird; hen (female chicken)
- 雌豚めぶた female pig; sow
- 雌黄しおう orpiment (yellow mineral, or the pigment derived from it); gamboge (tree resin, or the dull yellow pigment derived from it); falsification
- 雌松めまつ Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora); Japanese umbrella pine; tanyosho pine
- 雌株めかぶ female plant
- 雌蜂めばち queen (bee)
Other hanja read “자”
Other hanja with radical 隹
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences