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鸡

jī

chickens

Simplified form of 雞. The traditional 隹 (bird) component was replaced with 鸟, a different character for "bird".

Components
又 simplified component

又  Simplified component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Shorthand form of the 奚 component in the traditional character 雞.

鸟 meaning component

鸟  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

Evolution

鸡 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鸡 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
鸡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鸡 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
鸡 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鸡 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

鸡 (雞) 

jī

chickens; domestic fowl; fowl; chicken; CL:隻|只[zhī]; (slang) prostitute

Most common words with 鸡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鸡

fowl

鸡蛋

(chicken) egg

鸡肉

chicken meat

火鸡

turkey

鸡尾酒

cocktail (loanword)

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 36.3607% of movies

870th most common character in movies

1391st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

雞

Unicode

U+9E21


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