ひめ
Meanings
Noun
1. young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.)
Noun
Suffix
2. girl
Prefix
3. small; cute; lesser (in names of species)
Archaic
Noun
Kyōto-ben
4. prostitute
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (80 in total)
princess; daughter of a nobleman
princess
daughter of a person of high rank (esp. eldest daughter)
imperial princess
morning star lily (Lilium concolor); star lily
woman textile worker; Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
songstress; diva
goddess
female guardian deity of the market
Sleeping Beauty (fairy tale)
eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii); first intercourse of the New Year; loss of virginity; loss of maidenhead
female dancer; dancing girl; danseuse
Sleeping Beauty; Thorn Princess; Briar Rose
kokanee (landlocked variety of sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka)
dwarf milkwort (Polygala japonica)
rice starch; rice paste
mountain goddess
the three princesses; three kabuki roles regarded as some of the hardest to perform
sole girl in a group of geeks
small pine; short pine tree
hime cut; hairstyle consisting of straight shoulder-length or cheek-length sidelocks and bangs cut above the eyebrows
thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot
tall stewartia (Stewartia monadelpha); hime-syara stewartia
female fan of yuri comics, etc.
sex worker (at a soapland)
Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora); small pine (esp. one pulled from the ground during "ne-no-hi-no-asobi")
toilet device that plays a melody or flushing sound
Chinese guger tree (Schima wallichii); sasanqua (Camellia sasanqua); (arch.) Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum)
carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)
woman factory worker in weaving industry
Tatsutahime; goddess of autumn; goddess of fall
fringed iris (Iris gracilipes)
small Japanese field mouse (Apodemus argenteus)
soft rice (cooked in a pot)
Euterpnosia chibensis (species of cicada)
cucumberleaf sunflower (Helianthus cucumerifolius)
Aucuba japonica var. borealis (variety of Japanese laurel)
soybean beetle (Anomala rufocuprea)
European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)
house swift (Apus nipalensis)
common wombat (Vombatus ursinus)
olivaceous piculet (species of bird, Picumnus olivaceus)
Meloe coarctatus (species of oil beetle)
Broussonetia kazinoki (species of mulberry)
Monomorium intrudens (species of ant)
dovekie (Alle alle); dovekey; little auk
Pieris japonica; Hime Lily of the valley bush; andromeda
mining bee (of family Andrenidae)
Vespa ducalis (species of hornet)
arthritic neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea arthritica)
slipper lobster of genus Scyllarus (esp. species Scyllarus cultrifer)
sharp-nosed sand goby (Favonigobius gymnauchen)
grey stingfish (Minous monodactylus)
Mentha japonica (species of mint)
Parnassius stubbendorfii (species of swallowtail)
pelagic cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus)
slender shrew (Sorex gracillimus)
True's shrew mole (Dymecodon pilirostris)
northern marsupial mole (Notoryctes caurinus)
coast mole (Scapanus orarius); Pacific mole
Okinawa pit viper (Ovophis okinavensis); Ryukyu Island pit viper
silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus); pygmy anteater
Calliope hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope)
lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)
Chacoan mara (Dolichotis salinicola)
slender deutzia (Deutzia gracilis)
soft tick; argasid
soft tick; argasid
small pratincole (Glareola lactea); little pratincole; small Indian pratincole
turkey vulture (Cathartes aura); turkey buzzard
Ilex leucoclada (species of holly)
Baillon's crake (Porzana pusilla)
horseweed (Conyza canadensis); Canadian horseweed; Canadian fleabane; coltstail; marestail; butterweed
Liriope minor (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
caraway (Carum carvi); dill (Anethum graveolens)
black carpet beetle (Attagenus unicolor japonicus)
male fan of yuri comics, etc.
Himekawa Station
Examples (2 in total)
The princess lay with her eyes closed.
They go to Himeji castle.