open / start; beginning

a matriarch, the female head of a family or clan

a female human / (specifically) a woman, an adult female / a wife / a mistress, concubine / a maid / a prostitute / a woman's appearance or quality / a feminine object

(Internet slang) unpopular woman, unpopular girl

women's goods

male actor who plays female roles in kabuki theater: onnagata

Alternative spelling of 女形

(of a man) having characteristics appealing to women / (of a man) liking women; being a ladies' man; being a womanizer

a woman's work or effort / female worker / the handwriting of a woman / (by extension) Synonym of 平仮名 (hiragana): one of two syllabary scripts used to write Japanese, as opposed to kanji

feminine face