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雞
简 鸡 · 繁 雞Mandarin · pinyin jī
Meanings
- fowl
- chicken
- Classifier: 隻 zhī
- (slang) prostitute
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 雞. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- chicken; fowl; pheasant (Classifier: 隻／只 m c j mn)
- Rooster (10th of the Chinese zodiac signs)
- (slang) female prostitute
- (slang) penis, cock
- (Cantonese, Huicheng dialect) whistle
- (Cantonese, Huicheng dialect, Hokkien) trigger (of a gun)
- (Cantonese) weak; useless
- (Cantonese, no longer productive) Suffix for adjectives describing a weak or useless person.
- (Cantonese) to fire; to sack
- (Cantonese) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck
- (Cantonese) Classifier for ten thousand dollars.
- (Cantonese) alternative form of 笄
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