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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
- —大金鶏菊tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata); tickweed; sand coreopsis; lanceleaf tickseed
- —猿猴鶏頭love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus); tassel flower; velvet flower; foxtail amaranth
- —海南鶏飯Hainanese chicken rice
- —家鶏野鶩bored by the familiar, intrigued by novelty; domestic chicken and wild duck; one's wife and one's mistress
- —灰色綬鶏western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus); western horned tragopan
- —鶏群の一鶴a swan among ducklings; a diamond among stones; a great figure among the common run of men
- —鶏口となるも牛後となる勿れbetter be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow
- —鶏ふんpoultry manure; chicken droppings
- —シャムロ鶏game fowl; gamecock
- —鶏口となるも牛後となるなかれbetter be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow