鶏

鶏 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月人竹日火 (BOHAF), composition ⿰⿱爫夫鳥)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1494, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47074
• Dae Jaweon: page 2024, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 7, page 4641, character 14
• Unihan data for U+9D8F

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鷄)

1. chicken
2. bird

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Kun: にわとり (niwatori, 鶏, Jōyō)^{←にはとり (nifatori, 鶏, historical)}、とり (tori, 鶏)、かけ (kake, 鶏)、くたかけ (kutakake)

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ニワトリ

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Chicken

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⟨nipa tu to₂ri⟩ → */nipatːəri/ → /nifatori/ → /niwatori/

Originally derived from the 枕詞 (makura kotoba, “pillow word”, an epithet as a poetic device) compound phrase 庭つ鳥 (niwa tsu tori), 庭 (niwa, “garden”) +‎ つ (tsu, Old Japanese possessive particle) +‎ 鳥 (tori, “bird”), used in Old Japanese poetry as an allusive introduction to kake, the older word for “chicken” (see below). The medial tsu disappeared over time, yielding modern Japanese niwatori.^[1]

• (Tokyo) にわとり (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

鶏(にわとり) or 鶏(ニワトリ) • (niwatori) ^{←にはとり (nifatori)?}

1. a domesticated chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)

   Synonyms: 臼辺鳥 (usubedori), 鳥 (tori)

   Hypernym: 雉 (kiji)

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ニワトリ.

• 鶏(にわとり)を割(さ)くに焉(いずく)んぞ牛(ぎゅう)刀(とう)を用(もち)いん (niwatori o saku ni izukun zo gyūtō o mochiin, “why chop a chicken with a meat cleaver? → don't exaggerate”)

⟨kake₁⟩ → */kakʲe/ → /kake/ From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a chicken.^[1][2] Compare English cluck.

• IPA^(key):

鶏(かけ) • (kake) 

1. a chicken (domesticated fowl)

   Synonym: 臼辺鳥 (usubedori)

   • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 2:

     　爾波都登理(にはつとり)　迦祁(かけ)波那久(はなく)　 [Man'yōgana]

     [...]　庭(には)つ鳥(とり)　鶏(かけ)は鳴(な)く　[...] [Modern spelling]

     ...niwa tsu tori, kake wa naku...

     the garden bird, the chicken clucks

First attested in The Tales of Ise.

• IPA^(key):

鶏(くたかけ) • (kutakake) 

1. (archaic) a chicken (domesticated fowl)

   Synonym: 臼辺鳥 (usubedori)

• Occasionally seen with the reading くだかけ (kudakake).^[3][2]

From 鳥 (tori, “bird”).

• (Tokyo) とり (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

鶏(とり) • (tori) 

1. Alternative spelling of 鳥 (tori): a chicken (domesticated fowl); chicken meat

• 鶏(とり)の空(そら)音(ね) (tori no sorane, “cock's false cry”)
• 鶏(と)冠(さか) (tosaka, “cockscomb”)
• 鶏(とり)肉(にく) (toriniku, “chicken meat”)