HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Food

鸡 jī “chicken” in Chinese

Traditional 雞

What 鸡 means

  1. chicken
  2. fowl

Measure word 只 zhī · 一只鸡 yì zhī jī

How to say 鸡

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale鸡jī1st tone, high and level

鸡 in a sentence

  1. 我经常吃鸡。

    Wǒ jīngcháng chī jī.

    I often eat chicken.

    Sentence #6624685 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 我让你买鱼，不是鸡！

    Wǒ ràng nǐ mǎi yú, bú shì jī!

    I asked you to buy fish, not chicken!

    Sentence #10749899 from Tatoeba

  3. 她买了鸡肉。

    Tā mǎi le jīròu.

    She bought some chicken.

    Sentence #10306014 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 鸡 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 鸡 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
鸡jīfowl
  • 又again · yòu
  • 鸟bird · diǎo

Memory aidA bird 鸟. The 又 is a simplified stand-in for 奚 (xī), which gave the sound in the full form 雞.

How to write 鸡

鸡 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

鸡 (jī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 鸡 (jī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 鸡

Words with 鸡

鸡蛋jīdàn · egg

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FAQs

鸡 (jī) means “chicken” or “fowl”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it jī: jī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 鸡 is written 雞. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 只 (zhī). For example, one chicken is 一只鸡 (yì zhī jī).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 鸡 from the suggestions. Typing ji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
鸡 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.