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鶏

chicken
Stroke count: 19

Readings

On readingケイ
Kun readingにわとり、とり
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. chickenRtK
    彼は小さな鶏舎を持っている。He keeps a small poultry yard.tatoeba
    彼はサラダとロールパンと一緒に鶏肉を食べた。He ate chicken, along with salad and rolls.tatoeba
  1. chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
  2. domestic chicken
  3. chicken meat

Synonyms

鳥鶏肉

Radicals and components

Radical鳥bird
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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claw · vulture · husband · bird (鳥)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2097

Compound words

鶏肉とりにく
chicken meat; fowl; poultry; bird meat
鶏卵けいらん
hen's egg
養鶏ようけい
poultry raising; poultry farming; chicken farming
牡鶏おんどり
male bird
軍鶏しゃも
game fowl
鶏魚いさき
chicken grunt (Parapristipoma trilineatum)
鶏舎けいしゃ
poultry house
鶏頭けいとう
silver cock's comb (Celosia argentea, esp. crested cock's comb, Celosia argentea var. cristata)
鶏鳴けいめい
crowing of a cock
矮鶏チャボ
(Japanese) bantam
秧鶏くいな
rail (any bird of family Rallidae, esp. the water rail, Rallus aquaticus)
一番鶏いちばんどり
first cockcrowing
七面鶏しちめんちょう
turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
縞秧鶏しまくいな
Swinhoe's yellow rail (Porzana exquisita)
小綬鶏こじゅけい
Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus)
食火鶏ヒクイドリ
cassowary (Casuarius spp.)
緋秧鶏ひくいな
ruddy-breasted crake (Porzana fusca)
姫秧鶏ひめくいな
Baillon's crake (Porzana pusilla)
蓑曳鶏みのひきどり
minohiki chicken (Japanese long-tailed breed)
暹羅鶏シャムロけい
game fowl
炸子鶏ザーヅーチー
(Chinese style) deep-fried chicken
辣子鶏ラーズージー
laziji
鶉水鶏うずらくいな
corn crake
鶉秧鶏うずらくいな
corn crake

Additional Examples

鶏肉を３ポンド分ください。
I'd like three pounds of chicken.tatoeba
大工が息子に、鶏小屋を造ってやるのは、いたって簡単なことである。
It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son.tatoeba

Stroke Order

19 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 鶏

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