雌
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female; Taiwan pr. [ci1]
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 隹 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 雌
- Common rank
- #2,306
- Unicode
- U+96CC
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
feminine · Heisig RSH #1769
此 this (literary) + turkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 雌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 信口雌黄 | to speak off the cuff; to casually opine | |
| 雌雄同体人 | a hermaphrodite | |
| 雌雄同体性 | hermaphroditism | |
| 雌性接口 | female connector | |
| 雌雄同体 | hermaphrodite | |
| 雌性激素 | estrogen | |
| 雌雄异色 | sexual coloration | |
| 一决雌雄 | to have a showdown; to fight for mastery; to compete for a championship | |
| 决一雌雄 | see 一決雌雄|一决雌雄[yi1 jue2 ci2 xiong2] | |
| 妄下雌黄 | to alter a text indiscriminately (idiom); to make irresponsible criticism | |
| 雌激素 | estrogen | |
| 雌性 | female | |
| 雌体 | female of a species | |
| 雌三醇 | estriol | |
| 雌黄 | orpiment; arsenic trisulfide As2S3; make changes in writing; malign; criticize without gro… | |
| 孤雌生殖 | parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization) | |
| 英雌 | female hero (esp. in feminist discourse, cf. 英雄[ying1 xiong2]) | |
| 雌雄 | male and female | |
| 雌鹿 | doe | |
| 雌竞 | (slang) negative, toxic competition between women (esp. in seeking the favor and approval … |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 此 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 此 sound part | this, these; in this case, then | |
| 紫 | purple, violet; amethyst; surname | |
| 柴 | firewood, faggots, fuel; surname | |
| 些 | little, few; rather, somewhat | |
| 眦 | eye socket; the corner of the eye | |
| 赀 | wealth, property; to estimate, to count | |
| 呲 | to grimace; to bare one's teeth | |
| 疵 | flaw, fault, defect; disease | |
| 觜 | beak | |
| 訾 | to criticize, to bad-mouth; defect; betrayal | |
| 龇 | to bare one's teeth; crooked teeth | |
| 茈 | a plant yielding a red dye | |
| 髭 | mustache |