雞
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Translingual[edit]
| Traditional | 雞 |
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| Simplified | 鸡 |
| Japanese | 鶏 |
| Korean | 鷄 |
Han character[edit]
雞 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月大人土 (BKOG), four-corner 20414, composition ⿰奚隹)
Derived characters[edit]
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 1369, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42124
- Dae Jaweon: page 1875, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4105, character 2
- Unihan data for U+96DE
Chinese[edit]
| trad. | 雞/鷄 | |
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| simp. | 鸡 | |
| alternative forms | 鳼／𪉃 鳮 | |
Glyph origin[edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *keː): phonetic 奚 (OC *ɡeː) + semantic 隹 (“short-tailed bird”).
Etymology[edit]
Onomatopoeic (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Vietic *r-kaa (> Vietnamese gà), Proto-Tai *kajᴮ (“chicken”), Proto-Hmong-Mien *Kəi.
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Pronunciation[edit]
Definitions[edit]
雞
- chicken; fowl
- 雞棲于塒、日之夕矣、羊牛下來。……
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Jī qī yú shí, rì zhī xī yǐ, yángniú xiàlái.......
Jī qī yú jié, rì zhī xī yǐ, yángniú xiàguā. [Pinyin] - The fowls roost in their holes in the walls; and in the evening of the day, the goats and cows come down [from the hill]. [...]
The fowls roost on their perches; and in the evening of the day, the goats and cows come down and home.
雞棲于桀、日之夕矣、羊牛下括。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
鸡栖于埘、日之夕矣、羊牛下来。……
鸡栖于桀、日之夕矣、羊牛下括。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- 10th of the Chinese zodiac animals (rooster)
- (slang) female prostitute
- Coordinate term: 鴨／鸭 (yā)
- (slang) penis
- (Cantonese) whistle
- (Cantonese, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou Hokkien) trigger (of a gun)
- (Cantonese) weak; useless
- (Cantonese, non-productive) Suffix for adjectives describing a weak or useless person.
- (Cantonese) to fire; to remove from position
- (Cantonese) Alternative form of 笄.
Synonyms[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 雞
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Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: ayam (“prostitute”) (semantic loan)
- →? Proto-Tai: *kajᴮ (see there for further descendants)
See also[edit]
- (Chinese zodiac signs) 鼠 (shǔ), 牛 (niú), 虎 (hǔ), 兔 (tù), 龍／龙 (lóng), 蛇 (shé), 馬／马 (mǎ), 羊 (yáng), 猴 (hóu), 雞／鸡 (jī), 狗 (gǒu), 豬／猪 (zhū) (Category: zh:Chinese zodiac)
References[edit]
- “雞”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
雞
Readings[edit]
- Go-on: け (ke)
- Kan-on: けい (kei)
- Kun: にわとり (niwatori, 雞)←にはとり (nifatori, にはとり, historical); とり (tori, 雞); かけ (kake, 雞)
Compounds[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
For the niwatori reading:
| Kanji in this term |
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| 雞 |
| にわとり Hyōgaiji |
| kun’yomi |
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| (This term, 雞, is an alternative spelling of the above terms.) |
Etymology 2[edit]
For the tori reading:
| Kanji in this term |
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| 雞 |
| とり Hyōgaiji |
| kun’yomi |
| For pronunciation and definitions of 雞 – see the following entry. | ||||||
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| (This term, 雞, is an alternative spelling of the above terms.) |
Etymology 3[edit]
For the kake reading:
| Kanji in this term |
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| 雞 |
| かけ Hyōgaiji |
| kun’yomi |
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| (This term, 雞, is an alternative spelling of the above terms.) |
References[edit]
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
雞: Nôm readings: gà[1]
雞: Hán Nôm readings: kê[2][3][4][5][6]
References[edit]
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