Kanji雌
Readingし
Frequency13%
Used in (21 in total)
male and female (animals); the two sexes; victory and defeat; strengths and weaknesses
to have a showdown; to settle (e.g. a dispute)
lying low (and awaiting one's chance); biding one's time; submitting at first (to then strike later)
female flower; pistillate flower
orpiment (yellow mineral, or the pigment derived from it); gamboge (tree resin, or the dull yellow pigment derived from it); falsification; alteration
sexing (of chickens, silkworms, etc.)
gonochorism; unisexualism
biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish
female gametophyte; megagametophyte
eyes of unequal size; eyes differing in shape; bilaterally asymmetric eyes