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