Character Details
| chicken | Ascii: 25918 | w514 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 鸡 | jī | djee | 1 | 又 (hand) + 鸡 (phonetic bird) → chicken | 鸡 link | ||||||
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The bird meat of choice in China is the chicken. They eat all of it, including the crotch! | ||||||||||
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| - How many eggs do you want? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 203 - 饣 | shí | fish | eat (side) | left‑side food | 饭 饱 饿 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 又 (hand) + 鸡 (phonetic bird) → chicken | 鸟 (semantic origin) | 奚 (phonetic) | phonetic from 奚 | ||||||||