Kanji
Readingけい
Frequency10%
Used in (43 in total)
chicken meat
game fowl; gamecock
poultry raising; poultry farming; chicken farming
cockfight; fighting cock
poultry house
cockscomb; crest
poultry farm; chicken farm
silver cock's comb (Celosia argentea, esp. crested cock's comb, Celosia argentea var. cristata)
crowing of a cock; crowing of a rooster; cockcrow; dawn; (arch.) hour of the Ox (around 2am)
silky fowl; silky
poultry manure; chicken droppings
homosexual sex between males; buggery; sodomy
chicken leg
the poultry industry; poultry farming
sweet of egg yolks drawn into strands and boiled in sugar syrup (orig. from Portugal); angel hair; fios de ovos
better to be the beak of a rooster than the rump of a bull; better to be the leader of a small group than a subordinate in a large organization; better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
mouth of a chicken
dish of seasoned chicken with rice, pickles, etc. (from Kagoshima and Okinawa)
flock of chickens
person who resorts to petty tricks; person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks
better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; (lit.) better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow
egg-laying hen; layer
golden pheasant
a swan among ducklings; a diamond among stones; a great figure among the common run of men
adult chicken; mature fowl
parent stock (for chickens); breeder
culled chicken; spent hen
hen's egg (esp. in Chinese cuisine)
a swan among ducklings; a diamond among stones; a great figure among the common run of men
long-tailed fowl (variety of chicken)
bored by the familiar, intrigued by novelty; (lit.) domestic chicken and wild duck; one's wife and one's mistress
corn (on one's foot)
using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem
game fowl; gamecock
Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus)
tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata); tickweed; sand coreopsis; lanceleaf tickseed
red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)
hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)