女

female name

goddess; female deity

Pharmacology

nyoshin-san (herbal medicine)

Medicine

female-pattern baldness; female alopecia; androgenic alopecia

Organization name

Joshibi University of Art and Design

Organization name

Women's Foundation

Organization name

Women's Solidarity Foundation

Organization name

The School For Wives

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Great Learning for Women (18th century neo-Confucian educational text for women)

Organization name

Joshibi University of Art and Design Junior College

Organization name

Junior College of Kagawa Nutrition University

Historical term

palanquin for high-status women (Edo Period)

Historical term

women's volunteer corps; groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII

Historical term

female warrior

Historical term

15th day of the New Year (when women would belatedly do their New Year's greetings or go back to their parents' homes; in Kyoto and Osaka)

Mythology

Nüwa (mother goddess of Chinese mythology); Nügua

Historical term

female narrator in a silent movie theatre

Historical term

female servants' bedroom

Dated term

woman; girl

Obsolete term

female factory worker

Rare term

feminism

めこ only

girl

Slang

vagina

domestic service; working as a housemaid; domestic help; domestic helper

girl