鷄

See also 鶏, 鸡, and 雞

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 雞

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 奚 + semantic 鳥 (“bird”)

Han character

鷄 (radical 196 鳥+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 月大竹日火 (BKHAF))

1. chicken

References

• KangXi: page 1497, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47209
• Dae Jaweon: page 2027, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4651, character 17
• Unihan data for U+9DC4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鷄 (simplified 鸡, Yale gai1)

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Japanese

Kanji

鷄 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. alternative form for 鶏: a chicken (a bird)

Readings

• On: けい (kei)
• Kun: にわとり (niwatori), とり (tori)

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Korean

Hanja

鷄 (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鷄 (simplified 鸡, pinyin jī (ji1), Wade-Giles chi¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鷄 (ke, kê)