雞

See also 鷄, and 鸡

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 鷄

Etymology

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

Han character

雞 (radical 172 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月大人土 (BKOG), four-corner 2041₄)

1. chickens
2. domestic fowl

References

• KangXi: page 1369, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42124
• Dae Jaweon: page 1875, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4105, character 2
• Unihan data for U+96DE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

雞 (simplified 鸡, Yale gai1)

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Japanese

Kanji

雞 (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

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 火雞 (huǒ jī): turkey

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Min Nan

Hanzi

雞 (POJ koe, ke)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雞 (kê, ke)