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Kanji Detail for 鶏 - "chicken, poultry"

鶏

  • Meaning

    鶏 means "chicken, poultry."

    1. Chicken - A domestic fowl.

    2. Rooster - A male chicken.

    3. Hen - A female chicken.

    4. Poultry - Birds raised for food.

  • Words using 鶏

    • 鶏肉 とりにく Listen chicken meat; fowl; poultry

  • Four-character idioms with 鶏

    • 家鶏野鶩 かけいやぼく Listen bored by the familiar, intrigued by novelty; one's wife and one's mistress
    • 鶏口牛後 けいこうぎゅうご Listen better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
    • 鶏鳴狗盗 けいめいくとう Listen person who resorts to petty tricks; person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks

  • Tattoo check: 鶏

    • Verified meaning: chicken, poultry
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    chicken

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    chicken

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Japanese variant of 雞|鸡

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kei(ケイ) ケイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    niwatori(にわとり) にわとり

    tori(とり) とり

  • Strokes

    tip

    19 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    鳥 (tori・torihen)

  • Related Keywords

    chicken poultry bird fowl hen rooster egg crow hatch peck feather domestic

Sentences including 鶏

  • She bought a chicken.

  • Like a headless chicken.

  • I feel like chicken.

  • I love chicken.

  • What can you make with chicken?

  • What came first? The egg or the hen?

  • She bought chicken.

  • That meat is chicken.

  • Every morning, the rooster crows.

  • It tastes like chicken!

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