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Kanji Detail for 孵 - "hatch"

  • Meaning

    孵 means "hatch."

    1. Hatch - To incubate eggs.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    hatch; incubate

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    sit on eggs, hatch

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    breeding; to incubate; to hatch

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to brood over eggs, to incubate, to hatch

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A bird sitting on eggs to hatch chicks is called 孵. Insects and fish hatching from eggs are also called 孵.
  • Onyomi

    tip
  • Kunyomi

    tip
  • Strokes

    tip
  • Radical

    tip
  • Related Keywords

Sentences including

  • The hen sits on her eggs until they hatch.

  • What should you feed killifish that have just hatched from their eggs?

  • The down of chicks that have just hatched is damp, but after two hours it dries out and becomes fluffy.

  • The chicks hatched in April have also become 5 months old. Their bodies are about the same size as their parents, about the only difference is that the roosters have smaller crests than their father.

  • People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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