Kanji1 / 19
鶏 kanji
chicken
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 19
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ケイ
Kun readings
にわとりとり
Variant forms
雞鷄Words with 鶏
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鶏痘fowl pox
- —牝鶏hen
- —木鶏wooden rooster; unflinching fighting cock; strong individual unaffected by adversity
- —綬鶏Cabot's tragopan (Tragopan caboti); Chinese tragopan; yellow-bellied tragopan
- —小綬鶏Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus)
- —養鶏家poultry farmer
- —養鶏場poultry farm; chicken farm
- —養鶏業the poultry industry; poultry farming
- —葉鶏頭Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor); tampala
- —採卵鶏egg-laying hen; layer
- —鶏冠石realgar
- —爪羽鶏hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)
- —烏骨鶏silky fowl; silky
- —紐鶏頭love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus); tassel flower; velvet flower; foxtail amaranth; Inca wheat
- —青鶏頭red-root amaranth (Amaranthus retroflexus); redroot pigweed; red-rooted pigweed; common amaranth; pigweed amaranth; common tumbleweed
- —卵用鶏egg-laying hen; layer
- —鶏口牛後better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
- —鶏鳴狗盗person who resorts to petty tricks; person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks
- —割鶏牛刀using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem
- —赤色野鶏red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)