Kanji
N1 19 strokes Grade 8 freq #1901

chicken

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

bird tori

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

poultry raising; poultry farming
hen's egg
Baillon's crake (Porzana pusilla)
sweet of egg yolks drawn into strands and boiled in sugar syrup (orig. from Portugal); angel hair
breed of chicken native to Akita Prefecture
homosexual sex between males; buggery
corn; clavus
red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)
Meristotheca papulosa (species of edible red alga)
realgar

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken
chicken meat
first cockcrowing of the year
deep-fried chicken
steamed chicken
chicken broth; chicken soup

Example sentences

My uncle asked me to take care of the chickens.

We have two dogs, three cats, and six chickens.

I'd like three pounds of chicken.

Which do you like better, chicken or fish?