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(chicken) egg / hen's egg / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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  *雞* | 雞* | *雞
fowl / chicken / CL: 隻|只 / (slang) prostitute
HSK 2
cock; rooster
HSK 6
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
Kung Pao Chicken / spicy diced chicken
a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
laying hen
(bird species of China) spotted crake (Porzana porzana)
chicken gizzard lining
Taiwan-style popcorn chicken
ostrich (Struthio camelus) / also written 鴕鳥|鸵鸟 / fabulous bird like Sinbad's roc
eggshell
(loanword) massage
egg white
gong bao chicken / spicy diced chicken
lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit
penis (child's word)
keyhole saw / pad saw
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs
lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others
lemon chicken
lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom) / fig. trivial (matter)
free-range chicken
lit. chicken speaking with duck / fig. talking without communicating / people not understanding each other
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea / CL: 隻|只
a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common / manifestly superior
HSK 7-9
(coll.) profit-motivated article cynically disguised as feel-good content 雞湯|鸡汤 and designed to go viral
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
(bird species of China) Swinhoe's rail (Coturnicops exquisitus)
lit. to inject chicken blood / (coll.) extremely excited or energetic (often used mockingly)
chicken with cashew nuts
chicken breast
(bird species of China) white eared pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon)
lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom) / fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond
lit. to kill the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
(bird species of China) hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia)
buldak ramen (a type of spicy Korean instant noodles)
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
chicken bouillon powder (PRC) / essence of chicken, concentrated chicken stock sold as a tonic (Tw)
if you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog (idiom)
omelet / to make an omelet
chick
(bird species of China) Chinese grouse (Tetrastes sewerzowi)
dapanji or "big plate chicken", a kind of spicy chicken stew originating from Xinjiang
(bird species of China) Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus)
to start practicing at the first crow of the cock (idiom) / to be diligent in one's studies
free-range chicken / (dialect) hen / cowardly
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
rooster
chicken ribs / sth of little value or interest / sth of dubious worth that one is reluctant to give up / to be physically weak
lit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom) / fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself / to overrate one's abilities
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn
(often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese translation of the title of the 1993 self-help bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul")
chicken raised for meat / broiler / (computing) zombie / infected computer in a botnet
(Tw) (slang) snobbish, pretentious gay person
steamed chicken with chili sauce
lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
(slang) (of a woman) to work as a prostitute
Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) / (dialect) pheasant
lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
fried chicken
(bird species of China) slaty-legged crake (Rallina eurizonoides)
sodomy; anal intercourse; buggery
beetle larva
chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)
the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken / a dead loss (idiom)
cream sponge
Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson / see also 烏骨雞|乌骨鸡
(slang) total noob
(dialect) stingy / miserly / crafty / cunning
(slang) (pejorative) e-bike (from Cantonese)
pheasant / unregistered and operating illegally (business) / (slang) prostitute
four-eyes (facetious term for a person who wears glasses)
General Tso's chicken, a deep-fried chicken dish
grouse
crispy fried chicken
Baoji, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province 陝西省|陕西省
moorhen (genus Gallinula) / gallinule / frog
female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers.
chick; baby chicken
(bird species of China) koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha)
scrambled eggs
diploma mill
Cinchona ledgeriana, tree whose bark contains quinine
(bird species of China) common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
squeaky rubber chicken
quinine (Cinchona ledgeriana)
chicken gizzard (cuisine)
chicken farm
(bird species of China) red junglefowl (Gallus gallus)
(bird species of China) Tibetan sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes tibetanus)

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