雄

Glyph origin
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Etymology
Possibly from (STEDT), cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

However, Zev Handel doubts the Old Chinese word's cognate status, as "OC labialized initial plus schwa vocalism would normally correspond to a rounded vowel in PTB".

Definitions

 * 1)  male
 * 2) masculine; powerful; grand
 * 3) powerful or influential person or state
 * 4)  ruthless; cruel; mean
 * 5)  intense; rapid
 * 1) powerful or influential person or state
 * 2)  ruthless; cruel; mean
 * 3)  intense; rapid
 * 1)  ruthless; cruel; mean
 * 2)  intense; rapid
 * 1)  ruthless; cruel; mean
 * 2)  intense; rapid

Usage notes

 * Commonly used for animals to mean “male” in academic contexts, less commonly used in non-academic contexts (use instead), and not used for humans (use  instead). For example:

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) male
 * 2) something or someone excellent

Derived terms

 * : heroic, grand, excellent
 * : orpiment, an arsenic sulfide mineral
 * : a male flower

Etymology 2
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From. Persists in compounds, such as the first element o- in the modern Japanese term.

Noun

 * 1)  man, male
 * 2)  husband
 * 3) something large, powerful, or otherwise masculine
 * 4) yang
 * 1) something large, powerful, or otherwise masculine
 * 2) yang
 * 1) something large, powerful, or otherwise masculine
 * 2) yang
 * 1) yang

Usage notes

 * Not used in isolation in modern Japanese.

Antonyms

 * : woman, female

Derived terms

 * : in a traditional Japanese stone or wooden mill or grinder, the bottom of the two pieces, two which the drive shaft is attached
 * : a buck, a male deer
 * : the larger of two waterfalls
 * : a war cry
 * : man
 * : husband
 * : a male flower
 * : Susanoo, the male god of storms
 * ,, : manliness
 * , : yin-yang

Etymology 3
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Compound of, but the derivation of the su element is unknown.

See also the etymology of.

Noun

 * 1) a male

Usage notes

 * This is the most common reading of this term in modern Japanese when used as a standalone noun.
 * Only used to refer to non-human male organisms.

Etymology 4
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Compound of. The latter -n element might be a contraction of the possessive particle.

Noun

 * 1) male

Usage notes

 * Not used in isolation in modern Japanese.

Derived terms

 * , : a male chicken, a rooster, a cock