鸡

鸡

See also: 雞 and 鷄

鸡 U+9E21, 鸡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E21 ← 鸠 [U+9E20] CJK Unified Ideographs 鸢 → [U+9E22]

Translingual

Traditional	雞
Shinjitai	鶏
Simplified	鸡

Stroke order

Han character

鸡 (Kangxi radical 196, 鸟+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水心卜一 (EPYM), composition ⿰又鸟)

Derived characters

• 𭰥

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1505, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4615, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9E21

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 鷄 (奚 → 又 and 鳥 → 鸟)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鸡 – see 雞 (“chicken; fowl; 10th of the Chinese zodiac animals; etc.”). (This character, 鸡, is the simplified form of 鷄, which is in turn a variant form of 雞.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.