jī

鸡

chicken

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Words with 鸡

鸡蛋 jī dàn (chicken) egg; hen's egg HSK 1
公鸡 gōng jī cock; rooster HSK 6
母鸡 mǔ jī hen; don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1) HSK 6
鹤立鸡群 hè lì jī qún a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common; manifestly superior HSK 7–9

Examples from your lessons

  • 我要一个鱼和一个鸡蛋汤。 I'd like a fish and an egg soup. Lesson 18
  • 早饭我吃了两个包子和一个鸡蛋。 For breakfast I had two buns and an egg. Lesson 106
  • 我每天早上都吃两个鸡蛋。 I eat two eggs every morning. 早饭
  • 他每天早上都喝两杯咖啡,可是不吃鸡蛋。 He drinks two cups of coffee every morning but doesn't eat eggs. 早饭
  • 现在爸爸每天也吃一个鸡蛋了。 Now Dad eats an egg every day too. 早饭

Character facts

Radical
鸟 bird
Parts
又 + 鸟
Structure
Left–right
Traditional
雞
Unicode
U+9E21

Ideographic: Another 又 kind of bird 鸟