See 女性 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
"Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
"Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"ja:Female people",
"ja:Human"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ltc",
"3": "-",
"sort": "にょしょう"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Middle Chinese",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "女性",
"2": "woman; female + character; gender",
"id": "1,1"
},
"expansion": "女性 (MC nrjoX sjengH, “woman; female + character; gender”)",
"name": "ltc-l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle Chinese 女性 (MC nrjoX sjengH, “woman; female + character; gender”). The goon, so likely the initial borrowing.\nLargely superseded in everyday Japanese by josei above.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "女性",
"ruby": [
[
"女",
"にょ"
],
[
"性",
"しょう"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "nyoshō",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "nyosyau",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "によしやう",
"roman": "nyosyau",
"tags": [
"hiragana",
"historical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "にょしょう",
"hhira": "によしやう"
},
"expansion": "女(にょ)性(しょう) • (nyoshō) ^(←によしやう (nyosyau)?)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese dated terms",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"a woman"
],
"links": [
[
"woman",
"woman"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, dated) a woman"
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "にょしょー"
},
{
"ipa": "[ɲ̟o̞ɕo̞ː]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "woman",
"roman": "fujin",
"ruby": [
[
"婦",
"ふ"
],
[
"人",
"じん"
]
],
"word": "婦人"
}
],
"word": "女性"
}
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