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Kanji Detail for 鷄 - "chicken"
鷄
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Meaning
鷄 means "chicken." Also associated with rooster.
Chicken - A domestic fowl.
Rooster - A male chicken that crows at dawn.
Hen - A female chicken.
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Tattoo check: 鷄
- Verified meaning: chicken
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Also carries these associations: rooster
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.
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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
variant of 雞|鸡[ji1]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
chicken
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