Kanji
N1 14 strokes Grade 8 freq #1951

feminine, female

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

short-tail bird furutori

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

male and female (animals); the two sexes
female flower; pistillate flower
Kandelia obovata (species of mangrove)
orpiment (yellow mineral, or the pigment derived from it)
southern crabgrass (Digitaria ciliaris)
female gametophyte; megagametophyte
gynogenesis
Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass)
female
Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora); Japanese umbrella pine

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

female (animal, plant)
women should not rule over men; it is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock
Sedum rupifragum (species of stonecrop)
gynandromorph
to have a showdown; to settle (e.g. a dispute)
female calf; young heifer

Example sentences

No sooner had the younger brother gone into the forest than he found the river, swam across it, and there on the other side was the she-bear, fast asleep.

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

The authors state quite categorically that the female members of only a small number of species also sing.

I keep a female cat.