U+96DE "雞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
雞
U+96DE "雞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the word for "chicken" or "fowl." This ideograph is commonly used in traditional Chinese writing, such as in Taiwan and Hong Kong, while its simplified counterpart "鸡" (U+9E21) is standard in mainland China. The character is composed of components that historically relate to a bird and a phonetic element, reflecting its roots in ancient script development. In modern usage, it appears in various contexts including zodiac signs: the Year of the Rooster, culinary terms, and idioms such as “雞犬不寧” meaning extreme disturbance where even the chickens and dogs are not at peace.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+96DE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 雞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 雞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9B 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x96DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000096DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u96de |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2FB |
| kCCCII | 215F4C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7766 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7766 |
| kCangjie | BKOG |
| kCantonese | gai1 |
| kCihaiT | 1443.601 |
| kCowles | 1516 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1875.020 |
| kDefinition | chickens; domestic fowl |
| kEACC | 215F4C |
| kFanqie | 古奚 |
| kFenn | 881B |
| kFennIndex | 31.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2041.4 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0876n |
| kHangul | 계:1N |
| kHanYu | 64105.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jī(244) |
| kHKGlyph | 4423 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1875.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64105.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1369.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5346 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2FB |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7D62 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-83F8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5868 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7766 |
| kJapanese | ケイ にわとり |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,93,66 |
| kJapaneseKun | NIWATORI |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI |
| kJis1 | 7088 |
| kKangXi | 1369.020 |
| kKarlgren | 126 |
| kKorean | KYEY |
| kLau | 828 |
| kMandarin | jī |
| kMatthews | 428 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1005 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027757 |
| kMorohashi | 42124 |
| kNelson | 5036 |
| kPhonetic | 427 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15270+172.8.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 172.10 |
| kSBGY | 089.05 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9DC4<kLau,kMatthews U+9CEE<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鸡" U+9E21 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 758.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jī粵gai1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7179 |
| kTang | *gei |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 322:122 |
| kXHC1983 | 0524.012:jī |