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鸡 — fowl; chicken; prostitute

Pinyin
jī
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 鸡: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

鸡 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 鸡 in the HSK syllabus: 3

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 鸡蛋jīdànegg; hen's eggHSK 1
  2. 鸡jīfowl; chicken; prostituteHSK 3
  3. 鹤立鸡群hèlìjīqúna crane in a flock of chicken; way above the commonHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.