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| Simplified Chinese version |
| 雞 U+96DE |  Seal script |  Jinwen | 鳮 Semantic variant | 鷄 Alternate form Semantic variant | 鸡 Simplified character |
| Radical: | 隹+ 10 strokes = 18 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.89#5 Kangxi: p.1369#02 Cihai: p.1443r6c01 GSR: 876.n Hanyu: v6,p4105#02 |
| Composition: | Left: 奚, right: 隹. Component of: 𤄬 𤣕 𭌲 𧄰 |
| Mandarin: | jī ㄐㄧ |
| Cantonese: | gai1 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *gei |
| Shuowen: | 《隹部》鸡：知时畜也。从隹奚声。 |
| Guangyun: | 《广韵·上平声·齐·鸡》鸡：《说文》曰：知时畜也，易曰巽爲鸡。古奚切，十。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·隹部·十》鸡：《唐韵》古兮切《集韵》《韵会》坚奚切《正韵》坚溪切，𠀤音稽。《说文》知时畜也。《玉篇》司晨鸟。《尔雅·释畜》鸡大者蜀。蜀子雓，未成鸡僆，绝有力奋。《疏》此别鸡属也。《春秋·说题辞》曰：鸡爲积阳，南方之象，火阳精物炎上，故阳出鸡鸣，以类感也。《易·说卦》巽爲鸡。《书·泰誓》牝鸡无晨。《周礼·春官·大宗伯》六挚，工商执鸡。《礼·曲礼》鸡曰翰音。又《尔雅·释鸟》鶾，天鸡《注》鶾鸡赤羽。《逸周书》文鶾若彩鸡，成王时蜀人献之。又《尔雅·释虫》螒，天鸡。《注》小虫，黑身赤头，一名莎鸡，又曰樗鸡。《诗·豳风》六月莎鸡振羽。《尔雅翼》一名梭鸡。一名酸鸡。又鸡人，官名。《周礼·春官·鸡人》掌共鸡牲，辨其物，大祭祀夜嘑旦，以嘂百官。又《礼·明堂位》灌尊，夏后氏以鸡彝。又地名。《春秋·襄三年》同盟于鸡泽。《注》在广平曲梁县西南。又《昭二十三年》吴败顿胡、沈蔡、𨻰许之师于鸡父。《注》鸡父，楚地。《战国策》负鸡次之典。《前汉·地理志》郁林郡，雍鸡县。又姓。《正字通》明正统，陕西苑马寺监正鸡鸣时。《说文》籀文作鷄。互详鸟部鷄字注。 考证：〔《尔雅·释畜》鸡大者蜀。蜀子雓，未成鸡健〕谨照原文健改僆。〔《前汉·地理志》欝林郡雍鸡县。〕谨照原文欝改郁。 |
| Fanqie: | 古奚 (《广韵·上平声·齐·鸡》) |
| Unihan definition: | chickens; domestic fowl |
Example usage
| 《论语·阳货》: | 夫子莞尔而笑，曰：“割鸡焉用牛刀？” |
| Well pleased and smiling, he said, "Why use an ox knife to kill a fowl?" | |
| 《孟子·尽心上》: | 五母鸡，二母彘，无失其时，老者足以无失肉矣。 |
| Each family had five brood hens and two brood sows, which were kept to their breeding seasons, and thus the old were able to have flesh to eat. | |
| 《礼记·问丧》: | 亲始死，鸡斯徒跣，扱上衽，交手哭。 |
| Immediately after his father's death, (the son put off his cap, and) kept his hair, with the pin in it, in the bag (of silk); went barefoot, with the skirt of his dress tucked up under his girdle; and wailed with his hands across his breast. | |
| 《论衡·率性》: | 世称子路无恒之庸人，未入孔门时，戴鸡佩豚，勇猛无礼。 |
| 'Who is generally reported to have been a common and unsteady individual. Before he became Confucius' pupil, he wore a feather hat and a pig skin belt. He was brutal and unmannerly. | |
| 《墨子·小取》: | 且入井，非入井也。 |
| Being about to fall into a well is not falling into a well. | |
| 《庄子·大宗师》: | 浸假而化予之左臂以为鸡，予因以求时夜。 |
| If He were to transform my left arm into a cock, I should be watching with it the time of the night. | |
| 《道德经》: | 邻国相望，鸡犬之声相闻，民至老死，不相往来。 |
| There should be a neighbouring state within sight, and the voices of the fowls and dogs should be heard all the way from it to us, but I would make the people to old age, even to death, not have any intercourse with it. | |
| 《史记·五帝本纪》: | 西至于空桐，登鸡头。 |
| Westward to 'Hollow cave' and Cock's-head hills. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 有国之君不息牛羊，错质之臣不息鸡豚，冢卿不修币，大夫不为场园，从士以上皆羞利而不与民争业，乐分施而耻积藏。 |
| 《说苑·辨物》: | 天老曰：“夫凤，鸿前麟后，蛇颈鱼尾，鹤植鸳鸯，思丽化枯折所志，龙文龟身，燕喙鸡噣，骈翼而中注，首戴德，顶揭义，背负仁，心信志，食则有质，饮则有仪，往则有文，来则有嘉。” |
| 《春秋繁露》: | 吴大败楚之党六国于鸡父。 |
| 《韩诗外传·卷二》: | 曰：“君独不见夫鸡乎！” |
| 《大戴礼记·夏小正》: | 鸡桴粥。 |
| 《白虎通德论·五祀》: | 一说：户以羊，灶以鸡，中溜以豚，门以犬，井以豕。 |
| 《新书·胎教》: | 其牲以鸡。 |
| 《新序·杂事五》: | 邛对曰：“夫鸡处欢嗷，则夺锺鼓之音。” |
| 《太玄经·装》: | 次四，鶤鸡朝飞，踤于北，嘤嘤相和，不辍食。 |
| 《风俗通义》: | 故江、淮之间有猛兽，犹江北之有鸡豚。 |
| 《孔丛子·儒服》: | 子不见夫鸡耶。 |
| 《申鉴·政体》: | 暏孺子之驱鸡也，而见御民之方。 |
| 《独断·卷上》: | 凡祭宗庙礼牲之别名：牛曰一元大武，豕曰刚鬣，豚曰腯肥，羊曰柔毛，鸡曰翰音，犬曰羹献，雉曰疏趾，兔曰明视。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·独断》: | 前驱有九斿云罕闟戟皮轩銮旗，车皆大夫载銮旗者，编羽毛引系橦旁，俗人名之曰鸡翘车，非也。 |
| 《列子·天瑞》: | 厥昭生乎湿，醯鸡生乎酒。 |
| 《文子·上德》: | 乳犬之噬虎，伏鸡之搏狸，恩之所加，不量其力。 |
| 《列仙传·祝鸡翁》: | 祝鸡翁者，洛人也。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 常名当如婴儿之未言，鸡子之未分，明珠在蚌中，美玉处石间，内虽昭昭，外如愚顽。 |
| 《韩非子·扬权》: | 使鸡司夜，令狸执鼠，皆用其能，上乃无事。 |
| 《管子·轻重甲》: | 管子对曰：“鹅鹜之舍近，鵾鸡鹄䳈之通远，鹄鵾之所在，君请式璧而聘之。” |
| 《公孙龙子·通变论》: | 羊合牛非马，牛合羊非鸡。 |
| 《吴子·图国》: | 若以备进战退守，而不求能用者，譬犹伏鸡之搏狸，乳犬之犯虎，虽有斗心，随之死矣。 |
| 《六韬·农器》: | 鸡犬、其伺候也。 |
| 《九章算术·盈不足》: | 答曰：九人，鸡价七十。 |
| 《孙子算经·卷下》: | 今有三鸡共啄粟一千一粒。 |
| 《淮南子·齐俗训》: | 是故邻国相望，鸡狗之音相闻，而足迹不接诸侯之境，车轨不结千里之外者，皆各得其所安。 |
| 《吕氏春秋·为欲》: | 群狗相与居，皆静无争，投以炙鸡，则相与争矣，或折其骨，或绝其筋，争术存也。 |
| 《尹文子·大道上》: | 鸡豕满市，莫有志者，分定故也。 |
| 《春秋左传》: | 郑伯使卒出豭，行出犬鸡，以诅射颍考叔者。 |
| 《逸周书·周祝解》: | 地出物而圣人是时，鸡鸣而人为时，观彼万物，且何为求？ |
| 《国语·吴语》: | 为带甲三万，以势攻，鸡鸣乃定。 |
| 《晏子春秋》: | 今束鸡豚妄投之，其折骨决皮，可立得也。 |
| 《吴越春秋》: | 今年三月甲戌，时加鸡鸣。 |
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