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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
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
cock; rooster
HSK 6
a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common / manifestly superior
HSK 7-9
roast chicken
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
free-range chicken / (dialect) hen / cowardly
lit. chickens flying and dogs jumping (idiom) / fig. in chaos / in disarray
frog / the Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus)
lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
chick
dick / penis (vulgar)
turkey
chicken gizzard lining
Baoji prefecture-level city in Shaanxi / called Chencang 陳倉|陈仓 in ancient times
chicken meat
chicken ribs / sth of little value or interest / sth of dubious worth that one is reluctant to give up / to be physically weak
vegetarian chicken, a soybean product
cocktail (loanword)
corn (callus on the foot)
free-range chicken
Jize county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸, Hebei
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
penis (childish)
grouse
massage (loanword)
Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
rooster / cock / (slang) (Cantonese) to visit a prostitute
in pieces
chicken in rice wine / also translated drunken chicken
Jixi prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江 in northeast China
chicken feather / CL: / trivial
lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom) / fig. trivial (matter)
chicken coop
lit. lacking the strength even to truss a chicken (idiom) / fig. weak / unaccustomed to physical work
lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
rooster
Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) / (dialect) pheasant
lit. small belly, chicken's gut (idiom); narrow-minded / petty
chicken farm
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 / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道雞犬升天|一人得道鸡犬升天)
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs
lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom) / fig. mass slaughter
hazel grouse
bloodstone / red-fleck chalcedony / heliotrope (mineralogy)
a person who looks drenched and bedraggled / like a drowned rat / deep distress
(bird species of China) common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
if you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog (idiom)
moorhen (genus Gallinula) / gallinule / frog
chick / newly hatched chicken
crowing like a cock and stealing like a dog (idiom) / bag of tricks / useful talents
diced chicken meat
cross-eye
free-range chicken
Jixi prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江 in northeast China
Kung Pao Chicken / spicy diced chicken
lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
golden rooster stands on one leg (tai chi posture) / standing on one leg
the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken / a dead loss (idiom)
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
cock fighting
Baoji prefecture-level city in Shaanxi / called Chencang 陳倉|陈仓 in ancient times
Gorgon fruit / Semen euryales (botany) / see also 芡實|芡实
cheapskate / stingy person
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
cockscomb flower / Celosia cristata
lit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom) / fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself / to overrate one's abilities
goose pimples / goose bumps
Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"
Cinchona ledgeriana, tree whose bark contains quinine
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders. / We must learn to accept the people around us.
Jiguan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
(of clothing) V-neck
pheasant / unregistered and operating illegally (business) / (slang) prostitute
female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers.
(coll.) hen's egg
Jiguan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
crest / cockscomb
a variety of chicken
chicken raised for meat / broiler / (computing) zombie / infected computer in a botnet
Jize county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸, Hebei
petty or mean persons
lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium
a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
small-minded
Jidong county in Jixi 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
a simple inn with only chicken feathers to sleep on
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) / fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter / also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀
four-eyes (facetious term for a person who wears glasses)
lit. killing the chicken to scare the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
(bird species of China) chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar)
fowl cholera
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea / CL: 隻|只
lit. chicken speaking with duck / fig. talking without communicating / people not understanding each other
lit. a chicken and a bottle of wine (idiom); fig. ready to make an offering to the deceased, or to entertain guests
Jidong county in Jixi 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
quinine powder

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