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Kanji Detail for 雌 - "female"
雌
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Meaning
雌 means "female." Also associated with gentle, weak.
Female - Female of animals; female of plants.
Weak - Feeble; powerless.
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Four-character idioms with 雌
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雌伏雄飛
しふくゆうひ
biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish
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雌伏雄飛
しふくゆうひ
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Tattoo check: 雌
- Verified meaning: female
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Used in real Japanese given names (read めとり)
- Also carries these associations: gentle, weak
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 雌
Surnames 雌(めとり)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
feminine; female
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
female; feminine; gentle, soft
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
female; Taiwan pr. [ci1]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
female; feminine; gentle, soft
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The female of the bird family. The female of beasts is also sometimes called 雌. | Soft and weak. As in 守雌 (keeping feminine humility), 雌伏 (lying low).
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Sentences including 雌
Cows supply milk.
Cows provide us with milk.
ココは雌のゴリラである。
Koko is a female gorilla.
I keep a female cat.
Cows give their calves milk every morning.
Jack exchanged the cow for the seeds.
The hen has been brooding its eggs for a week.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
A female kangaroo carries its young in the pouch.
I have three dogs; one is male and the others are female.