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雞

雞

See also: 鷄, 鶏, and 鸡

Translingual

Traditional 雞
Shinjitai 鶏
Simplified 鸡

Alternative forms

Han character

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

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

Chinese

trad. 雞/鷄
simp. 鸡

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, OC *keː) : phonetic 奚 ‎(OC *ɡeː) + semantic 隹 ‎(“bird”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 雞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛj/
Li
Rong		 /kei/
Wang
Li		 /kiei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 雞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤe/
English fowl, chicken

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 雞
Reading # 1/1
No. 13357
Phonetic
component		 奚
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 雞
Old
Chinese		 /*keː/

Definitions

雞

  1. chicken; fowl; poultry
    雞肉 / 鸡肉  ―  jīròu  ―  chicken (meat)
    雞蛋 / 鸡蛋  ―  jīdàn  ―  chicken egg
  2. 10th of the Chinese zodiac animals (rooster)
  3. domestic fowl
  4. (slang) prostitute

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

雞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

雞 (kê, ke, xuyên)

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