鸡

See also: 雞 and 鷄
鸡 U+9E21, 鸡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E21
← 鸠
[U+9E20]
CJK Unified Ideographs 鸢 →
[U+9E22]

Translingual

Traditional 雞
Shinjitai 鶏
Simplified 鸡
Stroke order
7 strokes

Han character

鸡 (Kangxi radical 196, 鸟+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水心卜一 (EPYM), composition ⿰又鸟)

Derived characters

  • 𭰥

References

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 鷄 (奚 (xī) → 又 (yòu) and 鳥 → 鸟)

Definitions

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