鷄

See also: 鶏, 鸡, and 雞
鷄 U+9DC4, 鷄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DC4
← 鷃
[U+9DC3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鷅 →
[U+9DC5]

Translingual

Stroke order
Traditional 雞
Simplified 鸡
Japanese 鶏
Korean

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 𡿙

References

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

Chinese

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 / 形声, OC *keː): phonetic 奚 (OC *ɡeː) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鷄 – see 雞 (“chicken; fowl; pheasant; 10th of the Chinese zodiac animals; etc.”).
(This character is a variant traditional form of 雞).

Japanese

Shinjitai

鶏

Kyūjitai

鷄

Kanji

鷄

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鶏)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 鶏: chicken, bird

Readings

  • Go-on: け (ke)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: にわとり (niwatori, 鷄)←にはとり (nifatori, 鷄, historical)、とり (tori, 鷄)

Korean

Hanja

鷄 (eumhun 닭 계 (dak gye))

  1. hanja form? of 계 (“chicken”)

Vietnamese

Han character

鷄: Hán Nôm readings: kê[1][2][3][4]

  1. chicken

References

  1. ^ Génibrel (1898).
  2. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  3. ^ Trần (1999).
  4. ^ Trần (2004).
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