雌 — Chinese character
雌
cí
female; feminine; gentle, soft
- Pinyin
- cí
- Radical
- 172 ⾫ (Short Tailed Bird)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 此 隹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 隹; sound component 此
- Japanese
- 雌 as a kanji
Common words with 雌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雌性 | cí xìng | female |
| 雌激素 | cí jī sù | estrogen |
| 雌雄 | cí xióng | male and female |
| 雌蕊 | cí ruǐ | pistil |
| 信口雌黄 (信口雌黃) | xìn kǒu cí huáng | to speak off the cuff; to casually opine |
| 雌雄同体 (雌雄同體) | cí xióng tóng tǐ | hermaphrodite |
| 雌黄 (雌黃) | cí huáng | orpiment; arsenic trisulfide As2S3 |
| 雌鹿 | cí lù | doe |
| 雌性激素 | cí xìng jī sù | estrogen |
| 一决雌雄 (一決雌雄) | yī jué cí xióng | to have a showdown; to fight for mastery; to compete for a championship |
| 孤雌生殖 | gū cí shēng zhí | parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization) |
| 雌狮 (雌獅) | cí shī | lioness |
English words written with 雌
雌 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 7
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 10
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 28
- Analects 10.18
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi The Evidence of Virtue Complete
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Tsê Yang
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.