U+9E21 "鸡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+9E21 "鸡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the word for "chicken" or "fowl," commonly used in modern Mandarin and other East Asian languages such as Japanese and Korean, where it is known as "niwatori" and "gye" respectively. This ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, and its written form combines the radical for "bird" with a phonetic component, reflecting its origins in ancient Chinese script. In daily usage, "鸡" appears in numerous contexts, from culinary terms like "鸡肉" (chicken meat) to idioms and cultural references, such as the zodiac sign of the Rooster. Its standardized Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and languages, facilitating global communication and text processing.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
鸡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
鸡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE9 0xB8 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x9E21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00009E21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u9e21 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
275F4C |
| kCangjie |
EPYM |
| kCantonese |
gai1 |
| kDefinition |
chicken |
| kEACC |
275F4C |
| kFourCornerCode |
7742 |
| kGB0 |
2806 |
| kHanYu |
74615.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
jī(244) |
| kIICore |
AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
74615.030 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1505.141 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-3C26 |
| kTGH |
2013:928 |
| kKangXi |
1505.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
7741 |
| kMandarin |
jī |
| kPhonetic |
427* |
| kRSUnicode |
196'.2 |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
84.11 808.07 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
153.150:jī |
| kTotalStrokes |
7 |
| kTraditionalVariant |
"雞" U+96DE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"鷄" U+9DC4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
G |
| kXHC1983 |
0524.010:jī |