Memory phrase for the character: 雌

雌

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Meaning

female, feminine

Pronunciation

 SHI
mesu, me

Explanation

 Left: this 此 (to stop 止, sitting person 匕) right: bird 隹

Mnemonic
 
The stop-and-sit-bird is the female 雌 and the male 雄 is the ten-nose-bird.

Radicals

止 to stopAt top the picture of a left foot and at bottom a limiting line. "The foot stands at the line 一 and stops."
匕 sitting personThe Radical sajinohi means "spoon". But due to its appearance is typically used as a "sitting person". In few cases however, it is understood as claws (i.e. of a bear).
隹 birdTwo characters are equally used for bird, namely 鳥 and 隹.
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 Vocabulary

雌雄 雌雄  male and female (animals), the two sexes;
雌 めす  female (animal)

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