Kanji Detail of 鶏
鶏
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| Strokes: | 19 |
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This kanji, 鶏鶏, primarily means "chicken" or "fowl." It refers to a type of domesticated bird, specifically the rooster (male) and hen (female), and the collective term for the species. It's associated with poultry farming, eggs, and meat.
・On-yomi (音読み): ケイ (kei) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): にわとり (niwatori)
⚫︎鶏肉 (toriniku) Translation: Chicken meat ⚫︎鶏卵 (keiran) Translation: Chicken eggs ⚫︎養鶏 (yōkei) Translation: Poultry farming
The kanji 鶏鶏 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字, keisei moji). The left side of the character is a radical, 鳥鳥 (tori), which means "bird." The right side is 圭(kei), which gives the sound. Thus, the character combines the semantic element of a bird with a phonetic element, indicating the pronunciation.