鶏

鶏 — chicken

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 19
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1901 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: けい kei
Kun'yomi: にわとり niwatori

とり tori

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 鶏

A kanji is worth learning for the words it unlocks. These are from the JLPT vocabulary lists.

鶏肉とりにく chicken meat JLPT N5