| Chinese Text Project |
| 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》雞：知時畜也。从隹奚聲。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·上平聲·齊·雞》雞：《說文》曰：知時畜也，易曰巽爲雞。古奚切，十。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·隹部·十》雞：《唐韻》古兮切《集韻》《韻會》堅奚切《正韻》堅溪切，𠀤音稽。《說文》知時畜也。《玉篇》司晨鳥。《爾雅·釋畜》雞大者蜀。蜀子雓，未成雞僆，絕有力奮。《疏》此別雞屬也。《春秋·說題辭》曰：雞爲積陽，南方之象，火陽精物炎上，故陽出雞鳴，以類感也。《易·說卦》巽爲雞。《書·泰誓》牝雞無晨。《周禮·春官·大宗伯》六摯，工商執雞。《禮·曲禮》雞曰翰音。又《爾雅·釋鳥》鶾，天雞《註》鶾雞赤羽。《逸周書》文鶾若彩雞，成王時蜀人獻之。又《爾雅·釋蟲》螒，天雞。《註》小蟲，黑身赤頭，一名莎雞，又曰樗雞。《詩·豳風》六月莎雞振羽。《爾雅翼》一名梭雞。一名酸雞。又雞人，官名。《周禮·春官·雞人》掌共雞牲，辨其物，大祭祀夜嘑旦，以嘂百官。又《禮·明堂位》灌尊，夏后氏以雞彝。又地名。《春秋·襄三年》同盟于雞澤。《註》在廣平曲梁縣西南。又《昭二十三年》吳敗頓胡、沈蔡、𨻰許之師于雞父。《註》雞父，楚地。《戰國策》負雞次之典。《前漢·地理志》鬱林郡，雍雞縣。又姓。《正字通》明正統，陝西苑馬寺監正雞鳴時。《說文》籀文作鷄。互詳鳥部鷄字註。 考證：〔《爾雅·釋畜》雞大者蜀。蜀子雓，未成雞健〕謹照原文健改僆。〔《前漢·地理志》欝林郡雍雞縣。〕謹照原文欝改鬱。 |
| Fanqie: | 古奚 (《廣韻·上平聲·齊·雞》) |
| Unihan definition: | chickens; domestic fowl |
Example usage
| 《論語·陽貨》: | 夫子莞爾而笑，曰：「割雞焉用牛刀？」 |
| Well pleased and smiling, he said, "Why use an ox knife to kill a fowl?" | |
| 《孟子·盡心上》: | 五母雞，二母彘，無失其時，老者足以無失肉矣。 |
| 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. | |
| 《禮記·問喪》: | 親始死，雞斯徒跣，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. | |
| 《論衡·率性》: | 世稱子路無恆之庸人，未入孔門時，戴雞佩豚，勇猛無禮。 |
| '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. | |
| 《莊子·大宗師》: | 浸假而化予之左臂以為雞，予因以求時夜。 |
| If He were to transform my left arm into a cock, I should be watching with it the time of the night. | |
| 《道德經》: | 鄰國相望，雞犬之聲相聞，民至老死，不相往來。 |
| 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. | |
| 《史記·五帝本紀》: | 西至于空桐，登雞頭。 |
| Westward to 'Hollow cave' and Cock's-head hills. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 有國之君不息牛羊，錯質之臣不息雞豚，冢卿不脩幣，大夫不為場園，從士以上皆羞利而不與民爭業，樂分施而恥積藏。 |
| 《說苑·辨物》: | 天老曰：「夫鳳，鴻前麟後，蛇頸魚尾，鶴植鴛鴦，思麗化枯折所志，龍文龜身，燕喙雞噣，駢翼而中注，首戴德，頂揭義，背負仁，心信志，食則有質，飲則有儀，往則有文，來則有嘉。」 |
| 《春秋繁露》: | 吳大敗楚之黨六國於雞父。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷二》: | 曰：「君獨不見夫雞乎！」 |
| 《大戴禮記·夏小正》: | 雞桴粥。 |
| 《白虎通德論·五祀》: | 一說：戶以羊，灶以雞，中霤以豚，門以犬，井以豕。 |
| 《新書·胎教》: | 其牲以雞。 |
| 《新序·雜事五》: | 邛對曰：「夫雞處讙嗷，則奪鍾鼓之音。」 |
| 《太玄經·裝》: | 次四，鶤雞朝飛，踤于北，嚶嚶相和，不輟食。 |
| 《風俗通義》: | 故江、淮之間有猛獸，猶江北之有雞豚。 |
| 《孔叢子·儒服》: | 子不見夫雞耶。 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 暏孺子之驅雞也，而見御民之方。 |
| 《獨斷·卷上》: | 凡祭宗廟禮牲之別名：牛曰一元大武，豕曰剛鬣，豚曰腯肥，羊曰柔毛，雞曰翰音，犬曰羹獻，雉曰疏趾，兔曰明視。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 前驅有九斿雲罕闟戟皮軒鑾旗，車皆大夫載鑾旗者，編羽毛引繫橦旁，俗人名之曰雞翹車，非也。 |
| 《列子·天瑞》: | 厥昭生乎濕，醯雞生乎酒。 |
| 《文子·上德》: | 乳犬之噬虎，伏雞之搏狸，恩之所加，不量其力。 |
| 《列仙傳·祝雞翁》: | 祝雞翁者，洛人也。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 常名當如嬰兒之未言，雞子之未分，明珠在蚌中，美玉處石間，內雖昭昭，外如愚頑。 |
| 《韓非子·揚權》: | 使雞司夜，令狸執鼠，皆用其能，上乃無事。 |
| 《管子·輕重甲》: | 管子對曰：「鵝鶩之舍近，鵾雞鵠䳈之通遠，鵠鵾之所在，君請式璧而聘之。」 |
| 《公孫龍子·通變論》: | 羊合牛非馬，牛合羊非雞。 |
| 《吳子·圖國》: | 若以備進戰退守，而不求能用者，譬猶伏雞之搏狸，乳犬之犯虎，雖有鬥心，隨之死矣。 |
| 《六韜·農器》: | 雞犬、其伺候也。 |
| 《九章算術·盈不足》: | 答曰：九人，雞價七十。 |
| 《孫子算經·卷下》: | 今有三雞共啄粟一千一粒。 |
| 《淮南子·齊俗訓》: | 是故鄰國相望，雞狗之音相聞，而足跡不接諸侯之境，車軌不結千里之外者，皆各得其所安。 |
| 《呂氏春秋·為欲》: | 群狗相與居，皆靜無爭，投以炙雞，則相與爭矣，或折其骨，或絕其筋，爭術存也。 |
| 《尹文子·大道上》: | 雞豕滿市，莫有志者，分定故也。 |
| 《春秋左傳》: | 鄭伯使卒出豭，行出犬雞，以詛射潁考叔者。 |
| 《逸周書·周祝解》: | 地出物而聖人是時，雞鳴而人為時，觀彼萬物，且何為求？ |
| 《國語·吳語》: | 為帶甲三萬，以勢攻，雞鳴乃定。 |
| 《晏子春秋》: | 今束雞豚妄投之，其折骨決皮，可立得也。 |
| 《吳越春秋》: | 今年三月甲戌，時加雞鳴。 |
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