雞鳴

Chinese

		fowl; chicken	to cry (of birds)
trad. (雞鳴/鷄鳴)		雞/鷄	鳴
simp. (鸡鸣)		鸡	鸣

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jīmíng

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄇㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gai¹ ming⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jīmíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄇㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jimíng
  - Wade–Giles: chi¹-ming²
  - Yale: jī-míng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiming
  - Palladius: цзимин (czimin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ miŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gai¹ ming⁴
  - Yale: gāi mìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gai¹ ming⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: gei¹ ming⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐi̯⁵⁵ mɪŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: kej mjaeng

Rime
Character	雞	鳴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	古奚切	武兵切
Baxter	kej	mjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kei/	/mˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kei/	/mᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛi/	/miaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛj/	/miajŋ/
Li Rong	/kei/	/miɐŋ/
Wang Li	/kiei/	/mĭɐŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiei/	/mi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī	míng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gai¹	ming⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤe m.reŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*keː mreŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	雞	鳴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī	míng
Middle Chinese	‹ kej ›	‹ mjæng ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁe/	/*m.reŋ/
English	fowl, chicken	cry (of birds or animals)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	雞	鳴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13357	9216
Phonetic component	奚	鳴
Rime group	支	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	雞	明
Old Chinese	/*keː/	/*mreŋ/

Verb

雞鳴

(literary, of a rooster) to crow
- 風雨淒淒，雞鳴喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  风雨凄凄，鸡鸣喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Fēngyǔ qīqī, jīmíng jiējiē. [Pinyin]
  Cold are the wind and the rain,
  And shrilly crows the cock.

Noun

雞鳴

(literary) cockcrow; dawn
(literary, historical) a kind of spear

Proper noun

雞鳴

(～鄉) Jiming (a township in Chengkou, Chongqing, China)