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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
- —鶏卵Popularhen's egg
- —養鶏Popularpoultry raising; poultry farming; chicken farming
- —鶏舎poultry house
- —鶏頭silver cock's comb (Celosia argentea, esp. crested cock's comb, Celosia argentea var. cristata)
- —鶏鳴crowing of a cock; crowing of a rooster; cockcrow; dawn; daybreak; hour of the Ox (around 2am)
- —野鶏fowl
- —鶏冠cockscomb; comb; crest
- —闘鶏cockfight; fighting cock
- —鶏口mouth of a chicken; leader of a small group
- —鶏群flock of chickens
- —鶏糞poultry manure; chicken droppings
- —錦鶏golden pheasant
- —鶏足chicken leg
- —鶏眼corn; clavus
- —鶏姦homosexual sex between males; buggery; sodomy
- —鶏飯dish of seasoned chicken with rice, pickles, etc. (from Kagoshima and Okinawa)
- —種鶏parent stock (for chickens); breeder
- —成鶏adult chicken; mature fowl
- —廃鶏culled chicken; spent hen
- —鶏蛋hen's egg (esp. in Chinese cuisine)