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鶏 — 19 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」

道
3Junior high level ／ 19 strokes ／ Radical「鳥」
On
ケイけい · kei
Kun
にわとり・とりniwatori · tori
Meaning
chicken

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

With 鳥 "bird": the bird that is kept — a chicken.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onケイけいkei鶏卵けいらん鶏舎けいしゃ養鶏ようけい
Kunにわとりniwatori鶏にわとり

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 養鶏ようけい

    poultry farming

  • 鶏卵けいらん

    hen's egg

More words with this kanji

  • 鶏肋けいろく
  • 鶤鶏とうまる
  • 軍鶏しゃも

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

鶏卵(けいらん)を使(つか)って菓子(かし)を作(つく)った。

I made sweets using eggs.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

鶏卵養鶏鶏卵egg養to nou…鳥bird鳩pigeon鳧a wild…鳰a greb…鳳male…刑punish…契pledge啓enligh…掲put up掛hang
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 鳥Map of reading ケイAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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