How to write 鸡 (jī, “chicken”)
鸡 (jī), an HSK 1 character, means “chicken” and “fowl”. The traditional form is 雞, 18 strokes instead of 7. On its own it is an HSK 3 word; it also forms 鸡蛋 (“(chicken) egg”), 鹤立鸡群 (“a crane in a flock of chicken”) and 公鸡 (“cock”). Japanese keeps the traditional 雞, read kei (“chickens”).
- Pinyin
- jī
- Strokes
- 7
- HSK
- 1
- Radical
- 鸟 (“bird”)
- Traditional
- 雞
Stroke by stroke
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- 3
- 4
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- 7
As a left-right character it splits into 又 (“again”), strokes 1–2; 鸟 (“bird”, the radical), strokes 3–7, written the left part first.
- top leftrightwards → down and left
- leftdown and right
- topdown and right → down and left
- toprightwards → downwards → up and left
- Dottopa dot
- topdownwards → rightwards → downwards
- bottom leftrightwards
Traditional form
- Simplified
- 鸡 · 7 strokes
- Traditional
- 雞 · 18 strokes · see its strokes
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| jī first tone | chicken; fowl | 雞 | 鸡蛋 鹤立鸡群 公鸡 叫鸡 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
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- Words with it
- 195 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 鸡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸡 雞 | jī | fowl; chicken HSK 3 |
| 鸡蛋 雞蛋 | jīdàn | (chicken) egg; hen's egg HSK 1 |
| 鹤立鸡群 鶴立雞群 | hèlìjīqún | a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common HSK 7-9 |
| 公鸡 公雞 | gōngjī | cock; rooster |
| 叫鸡 叫雞 | jiàojī | rooster; cock |
| 吃鸡 吃雞 | chījī | (video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG); battle royale game |
| 小鸡 小雞 | xiǎojī | chick |
| 水鸡 水雞 | shuǐjī | moorhen (genus Gallinula); gallinule |
| 火鸡 火雞 | huǒjī | turkey |
| 蛋鸡 蛋雞 | dànjī | laying hen |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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