鶏

Meaning

鶏 centers on the domesticated chicken, the common bird raised for eggs and meat.

• 鶏にわとり
  N3

  chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken

• 鶏肉とりにく
  N5

  chicken meat

• 養鶏ようけい

  poultry raising; poultry farming; chicken farming

• 鶏卵けいらん

  hen's egg

• 風見鶏かざみどり

  weather vane

• 軍鶏しゃも

  game fowl; gamecock

• 雄鶏おんどり

  male bird

• 鶏冠とさか

  cockscomb; comb; crest

• 闘鶏とうけい

  cockfight; fighting cock

• 矮鶏チャボ

  (Japanese) bantam

• 花鶏あとり

  brambling (bird) (Fringilla montifringilla)

• 参鶏湯サムゲタン

  samgyetang (Korean dish); chicken ginseng soup

• 棒々鶏バンバンジー

  bang bang chicken (Szechuan dish of chicken in a spicy sauce)

• 山原水鶏やんばるくいな

  Okinawa rail (Gallirallus okinawae)

• 鶏舎けいしゃ

  poultry house

• よだれ鶏よだれどり

  mouth-watering chicken (Chinese dish of steamed chicken with a spicy sauce)

• 一番鶏いちばんどり

  first cockcrowing

• 三番鶏さんばんどり

  third cockcrowing

• 初鶏はつとり

  first cockcrowing of the year

• 割鶏牛刀かっけいぎゅうとう

  using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem

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