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雌 kanji
feminine, female
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
シ
Kun readings
め-めすめん
Words with 雌
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —雌雄Popularmale and female (animals); the two sexes; victory and defeat; strengths and weaknesses
- —雌性female
- —雌伏lying low (and awaiting one's chance); biding one's time; submitting at first (to then strike later)
- —雌黄orpiment (yellow mineral, or the pigment derived from it); gamboge (tree resin, or the dull yellow pigment derived from it); falsification; alteration
- —雌雄性sexuality
- —雌雄眼eyes of unequal size; eyes differing in shape; bilaterally asymmetric eyes
- —雌雄同体hermaphroditism
- —雌雄同株monoecy; monoecism
- —雌雄淘汰sexual selection
- —雌雄異体gonochorism; unisexualism
- —雌雄異株dioecy; dioecism
- —雌雄選択sexual selection
- —雌雄鑑別sexing (of chickens, silkworms, etc.)
- —雌伏雄飛biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish
- —雌性発生gynogenesis
- —雌性配偶体female gametophyte; megagametophyte
- —雌性ホルモンfemale hormone
- —雌雄モザイクgynandromorph
- —雌雄を決するto have a showdown; to settle (e.g. a dispute)