雌

雌 U+96CC, 雌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96CC
← 雋
[U+96CB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 雍 →
[U+96CD]

Translingual

Han character

雌 (radical 172, 隹+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜一心人土 (YMPOG), four-corner 20114, composition ⿰此隹)

References
  • KangXi: page 1366, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41998
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1871, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4098, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+96CC

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 雌

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 雌
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (此) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
些 *saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐 *ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴 *zreː
祡 *zreː
茈 *zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦 *zreːs
砦 *zraːds
寨 *zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙 *ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉 *sʰeːʔ
鮆 *zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥 *zeːs, *zes
貲 *ʔse
髭 *ʔse
頾 *ʔse
訾 *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜 *ʔse, *ze
鈭 *ʔse, *sʰe
姕 *ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜 *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫 *ʔseʔ
訿 *ʔseʔ
呰 *ʔseʔ
嘴 *ʔseʔ
雌 *sʰe
此 *sʰeʔ
佌 *sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛 *sʰes
疵 *ze
骴 *ze, *zes
胔 *ze, *zes
飺 *ze
齜 *ʔsre

Etymology

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 雌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 此移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰie/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 雌
Reading # 1/1
No. 1721
Phonetic
component		 此
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 雌
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰe/

Definitions

雌

  1. (formal) female (describing animals and plants)

Usage notes
  • Commonly used for animals and plants to mean "female" in academic contexts, less commonly used in non-academic contexts (use "母" instead), and not used for humans (use "女" instead). For example:
    母雞 / 母鸡  ―  mǔjī  ―  hen
    母牛  ―  mǔniú  ―  cow

Antonyms
  • 雄 (xióng, “male”)

Compounds
Derived terms from 雌

Japanese

Kanji
雌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
雌
めす
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

雌 (hiragana めす, katakana メス, rōmaji mesu)

  1. a female (plant or animal)
  2. an internal socket
Antonyms
Derived terms
  • 雌 (メス)黒 (グロ)豹紋蝶 (ヒョウモン) (mesugurohyōmon)

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
雌
め
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese.

Extension of 女 (me, “woman”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

雌 (hiragana め, rōmaji me)

  1. a female (plant or animal)
    Antonym: 雄 (o)
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 3
Kanji in this term
雌
めん
Grade: S
Irregular

From 雌 (me, “female plant or animal”, see above) +‎ ん (-n, abbreviation of case particle の (no)).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

雌 (hiragana めん, rōmaji men)

  1. a female (plant or animal)
    Antonym: 雄 (on)

Etymology 4
Kanji in this term
雌
し
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 雌 (MC t͡sʰiᴇ).

Affix

雌 (hiragana し, rōmaji shi)

  1. female (plant or animal)
    Antonym: 雄 (yū)
  2. effeminate

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

雌 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Old Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Extension of 女 (me1, “woman”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

雌 (me1) (kana め)

  1. female (plant or animal)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Japanese: 雌 (me)

Vietnamese

Han character

雌 (thư)

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