chicken
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 3 examplesnoun
chicken (especially a live one); hen or rooster
dialectA colloquial term for chicken, commonly used in Northern Chinese dialects. It refers to the bird itself, often in contrast to chicken meat (鸡肉).
Yuàn院
zi子
lǐ里
yǎng养
le了
jǐ几
zhī只
jī鸡
zi子
。
We keep a few chickens in the yard.
Wǒ我
xiǎo小
shí时
hou候
，
nǎi奶
nai奶
zǒng总
qù去
zǎo早
shì市
mǎi买
huó活
jī鸡
zi子
。
When I was a child, grandma would always go to the morning market to buy live chickens.
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Zhè这
zhī只
jī鸡
zi子
zǎo早
shang上
dǎ打
míng鸣
le了
。
This rooster crowed in the morning.