雞

See also: 鷄, 鶏, and 鸡
雞 U+96DE, 雞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96DE
← 雝
[U+96DD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 雟 →
[U+96DF]

Translingual

Traditional 雞
Shinjitai 鶏
Simplified 鸡

Han character

雞 (radical 172, 隹+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月大人土 (BKOG), four-corner 20414, composition ⿰奚隹)

Derived characters

  • 𤄬, 𤣕, 𭌲, 𧄰

References

  • KangXi: page 1369, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42124
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1875, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4105, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+96DE

Chinese

trad. 雞/鷄
simp. 鸡

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, OC *keː) : phonetic 奚 (OC *ɡeː) + semantic 隹 (“short-tailed bird”).

Etymology

Onomatopoeic (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Vietic *r-kaa (> Vietnamese gà).

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Pronunciation

Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • koe - vernacular;
    • ke - literary.
Rime
Character 雞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛj/
Li
Rong		 /kei/
Wang
Li		 /kiei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 雞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤe/
English fowl, chicken

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13357
Phonetic
component		 奚
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 雞
Old
Chinese		 /*keː/

Definitions

雞

  1. chicken; fowl; poultry
    雞肉 / 鸡肉  ―  jīròu  ―  chicken meat
    雞蛋 / 鸡蛋  ―  jīdàn  ―  chicken egg
  2. 10th of the Chinese zodiac animals (rooster)
  3. domestic fowl
  4. (slang) prostitute
  5. (slang) penis

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 雞 (“chicken (animal)”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 雞
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 雞
Taxonomic name 雞
Mandarin Beijing 雞
Taiwan 雞
Harbin 雞
Jinan 雞
Muping 雞
Luoyang 雞兒
Jiedian 雞
Xi'an 雞
Xining 雞兒、雞
Xuzhou 雞
Yinchuan 雞
Lanzhou 雞兒
Ürümqi 雞
Wuhan 雞子
Chengdu 雞
Guiyang 雞
Guilin 雞
Liuzhou 雞
Yangzhou 雞子
Nanjing 雞
Cantonese Guangzhou 雞
Hong Kong 雞
Shunde 雞
Zhongshan 雞
Dongguan 雞
Taishan 雞
Doumen 雞
Kaiping 雞
Shaoguan 雞
Yunfu 雞
Xinyi 雞
Lianjiang 雞
Nanning 雞
Wuzhou 雞
Yulin 雞
Hepu 雞
Gan Nanchang 雞
Lichuan 雞
Pingxiang 雞
Hakka Meixian 雞
Luchuan 雞
Yudu 雞
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 雞仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 雞仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 雞仔
Dongshi (Dabu) 雞
Zhuolan (Raoping) 雞仔
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 雞
Huizhou Jixi 雞
Jin Taiyuan 雞兒
Xinzhou 雞兒
Hohhot 雞子
Min Dong Fuzhou 雞、雞囝
Fuqing 雞
Matsu 雞
Min Nan Xiamen 雞、雞仔
Quanzhou 雞、雞仔
Zhangzhou 雞、雞仔
Taipei 雞、雞仔
Kaohsiung 雞、雞仔
Penang 雞
Pingnan 雞
Haikou 雞
Pinghua Nanning 雞
Guilin 雞
Wu Shanghai 雞
Suzhou 雞
Hangzhou 雞
Wenzhou 雞
Chongming 雞
Danyang 雞
Jinhua 雞
Ningbo 雞
Xiang Changsha 雞
Loudi 雞
Quanzhou 雞

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Tai: *kajᴮ (“chicken”)

Japanese

Kanji

雞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. alternative form for 鶏: a chicken (a bird)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

雞 • (gye) (hangeul 계, McCune–Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

雞 (kê)

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