鷄 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. にわとり。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「鳥」+音符「奚」。「にわとり」を意味する漢語{雞}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

chicken

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ケイ
Kun (native)
  • にわとり
  • とり
Other languages
  • 拼音ji1
  • 한글gye
  • Hán-Việt

Basics

Strokes
21 strokes
Radical
鳥(とり)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+9DC4

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰奚鳥

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-10-11
Four Corner
2742.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
11b8.4
Nelson
5361