鷄

See also: 鶏, 鸡, and 雞

鷄 U+9DC4, 鷄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DC4 ← 鷃 [U+9DC3] CJK Unified Ideographs 鷅 → [U+9DC5]

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	雞
Simplified	鸡
Japanese	鶏
Korean	鷄

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𡿙

References

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
謑	*qʰraːs, *qʰreːs, *ɡeːʔ
膎	*ɡreː
鞵	*ɡreː
榽	*ɡreː, *ɡeː
鷄	*keː
雞	*keː
谿	*kʰeː
嵠	*kʰeː
溪	*kʰeː
磎	*kʰeː
螇	*kʰeː, *ɡeː
鸂	*kʰeː
奚	*ɡeː
豯	*ɡeː
徯	*ɡeː, *ɡeːʔ
蹊	*ɡeː
騱	*ɡeː
傒	*ɡeː
鼷	*ɡeː
蒵	*ɡeː, *ɡeːs
貕	*ɡeː
慀	*ɡeːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *keː) : phonetic 奚 (OC *ɡeː) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鷄 – see 雞 (“chicken; fowl; 10th of the Chinese zodiac animals; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 雞).

Japanese

Shinjitai	鶏
Kyūjitai	鷄

Kanji

鷄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鶏)

1. Kyūjitai form of 鶏: chicken, bird

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kun: にわとり (niwatori, 鷄)^{←にはとり (nifatori, 鷄, historical)}; とり (tori, 鷄)

Korean

Hanja

鷄 (eumhun 닭 계 (dak gye))

1. Hanja form^? of 계 (“chicken”).

Vietnamese

Han character

鷄: Hán Nôm readings: kê

1. chicken