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鶏

N1

Stroke Order

Meanings

  • chicken

On'yomi (音読み)

  • ケイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

  • にわとり
  • とり
Strokes
19
JLPT Level
N1
Frequency
#1872
School Grade
Secondary
Radical
鳥#196 · bird

Components

Common Words

  • 鶏にわとりNoun
    chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), domestic chicken
  • 鶏肉とりにくNoun
    chicken meat
  • 養鶏ようけいNoun
    poultry raising, poultry farming, chicken farming
  • 鶏卵けいらんNoun
    hen's egg
  • 初鶏はつとりNoun
    first cockcrowing of the year
  • 地鶏じどりNoun
    nationally protected chicken breed, free-range local traditional pedigree chicken, chicken meat from same
  • 巣鶏すどりNoun
    setting hen
  • 廃鶏はいけいNoun
    culled chicken, spent hen

Practice in Kanjiru

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