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鷄

鷄

See also: 鶏, 鸡, and 雞

Translingual

Alternative forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謑 *qʰraːs, *qʰreːs, *ɡeːʔ
膎 *ɡreː
鞵 *ɡreː
榽 *ɡreː, *ɡeː
鷄 *keː
雞 *keː
谿 *kʰeː
嵠 *kʰeː
溪 *kʰeː
磎 *kʰeː
螇 *kʰeː, *ɡeː
鸂 *kʰeː
奚 *ɡeː
豯 *ɡeː
徯 *ɡeː, *ɡeːʔ
蹊 *ɡeː
騱 *ɡeː
傒 *ɡeː
鼷 *ɡeː
蒵 *ɡeː, *ɡeːs
貕 *ɡeː
慀 *ɡeːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *keː) : phonetic 奚 ‎(OC *ɡeː) + semantic 鳥 ‎(“bird”).

Han character

鷄 (radical 196 鳥+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 月大竹日火 (BKHAF), composition ⿰奚鳥)

References

  • KangXi: page 1497, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47209
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2027, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4651, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+9DC4

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 鷄 – see 雞.
(This character, 鷄, is a variant form of 雞.)

Japanese

Kanji

鷄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鶏)

  1. kyūjitai form for 鶏: a chicken (a bird)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

鷄 • ‎(gye) (hangeul 계, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鷄 (kê, xuyên)

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