雞 (jī)
Chicken
How 雞 is written
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 爫 — claw/talon
- Traditional
- 雞
- Simplified
- 鸡
Components
- 爫 claw/talon
- 幺 short/tiny
- 大 big
- 隹 small bird
Common words using 雞
- 雞翅 jīchì
- chicken wings (fast food)
- 雞蛋 jīdàn
- (chicken) egg; hen's egg; CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2]
- 公雞 gōngjī
- cock; rooster
- 呆若木雞 dāiruòmùjī
- lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
- 寶雞 bǎojī
- Bǎojī prefecture level city in Shǎnxī 陝西; called Chencang 陳倉|陈仓 in ancient times
- 小雞 xiǎojī
- chick
- 母雞 mǔjī
- hen
- 火雞 huǒjī
- turkey
- 炸雞 zhàjī
- fried chicken
- 烏雞 wūjī
- black-boned chicken; silky fowl; silkie
- 烤雞 kǎojī
- roast chicken
- 田雞 tiánjī
- frog; the Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus)
雞 in a sentence
台灣的炸雞排很有名。
Táiwān de zhàjīpái hěn yǒumíng.
“Taiwan's fried chicken cutlets are very famous.”
How common is 雞?
雞 is the 1,389th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.7% of all running text.
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