traditional: 雞
simplified: 鸡
Pinyin: ji [1st sound]
Definition: chicken, fowl
In the Oracle bone script (jia gu wen) and the Bronze engraving script (jin wen) are Pictographic Character, there are the picture of a chicken. After the evolution of Chinese language, the Pictophonetic Character is used by “隹” or “鳥(鸟)” as meaning, and use “奚” as a phonetics.
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