雌

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

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

雌 (radical 172 隹+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一心人土 (YMPOG), four-corner 2011₄, composition ⿰此隹)

1. female
2. feminine
3. gentle, soft

ReferencesEdit

• 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

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		雌

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 雌
Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cí, cī

  (Zhuyin): ㄘˊ, ㄘ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ
• Min Nan (POJ): chhîr / chhû / chhî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: cí
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tz'u²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: cī
    • Zhuyin: ㄘ
    • Wade-Giles: tz'u¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsy
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci¹
    • Yale: chī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: cii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ci⁴
    • IPA: /t͡sʰɨ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhîr
    • Tâi-lô: tshîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhû
    • Tâi-lô: tshû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhuu
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰu²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰu¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhî
    • Tâi-lô: tshî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰi¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰiᴇ/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰe/

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/

DefinitionsEdit

雌

1. (formal) female (describing animals)

Usage notesEdit

• Commonly used for animals 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

AntonymsEdit

• 雄 (xióng, “male”)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

雌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

Kanji in this term
雌
めす Grade: S
kun'yomi

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: めす (mesu), め (me)

NounEdit

雌 (hiragana めす, rōmaji mesu)

1. female (non-human)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

雌 (thư)

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