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(chicken) egg / hen's egg / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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fowl / chicken / CL: 隻|只 / (slang) prostitute
HSK 2
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
cock; rooster
HSK 6
a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common / manifestly superior
HSK 7-9
Jiguan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
crest / cockscomb
golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)
chick
fried chicken
chicken leg / drumstick / CL:
chicken raised for meat / broiler / (computing) zombie / infected computer in a botnet
bloodstone / red-fleck chalcedony / heliotrope (mineralogy)
cock fighting
chicken ribs / sth of little value or interest / sth of dubious worth that one is reluctant to give up / to be physically weak
lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) / (dialect) pheasant
chicken bouillon powder (PRC) / essence of chicken, concentrated chicken stock sold as a tonic (Tw)
dick / penis (vulgar)
roast chicken
corn (callus on the foot)
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
chicken coop
a person who looks drenched and bedraggled / like a drowned rat / deep distress
chicken meat
Jize county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸, Hebei
chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)
chicken gizzard lining
laying hen
cheapskate / stingy person
in pieces
lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom) / fig. trivial (matter)
diced chicken meat
chicken feather / CL: / trivial
lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
turkey
golden rooster stands on one leg (tai chi posture) / standing on one leg
rooster
golden pheasant
chicken coop
to start practicing at the first crow of the cock (idiom) / to be diligent in one's studies
rooster / cock / (slang) (Cantonese) to visit a prostitute
frog / the Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus rugulosus)
pheasant / unregistered and operating illegally (business) / (slang) prostitute
Jidong county in Jixi 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道雞犬升天|一人得道鸡犬升天)
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs
a variety of chicken
free-range chicken
lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium
chick / newly hatched chicken
vegetarian chicken, a soybean product
(bird species of China) common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
cockscomb flower / Celosia cristata
the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken / a dead loss (idiom)
Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"
free-range chicken / (dialect) hen / cowardly
lit. small belly, chicken's gut (idiom); narrow-minded / petty
Gorgon fruit / Semen euryales (botany) / see also 芡實|芡实
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
lit. chickens flying and dogs jumping (idiom) / fig. in chaos / in disarray
crowing like a cock and stealing like a dog (idiom) / bag of tricks / useful talents
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders. / We must learn to accept the people around us.
lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom) / fig. mass slaughter
sodomy; anal intercourse; buggery
a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
grouse
female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers.
shaggy ink cap (edible mushroom) / Coprinus comatus
small-minded
if you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog (idiom)
quinine powder
penis (childish)
lit. to point at the chicken while scolding the dog (idiom) / fig. to make indirect criticisms
lit. killing the chicken to scare the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
chicken nugget / chicken piece
bird mentioned in ancient texts, resembling a crane
chick; baby chicken / (vulgar) penis
chicken strips
(video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) / battle royale game / last-man-standing game / to play PUBG (or similar game) / to win at PUBG (or similar game)
variant of 雞姦|鸡奸
laying hen
free-range chicken
chicken breast / chicken cutlet
Year of the Cock (e.g. 2005)
chicken jelly / (Internet slang) exciting (pun on 激動|激动)
chicken feet
(slang) (of a woman) to work as a prostitute
chick / (neologism c. 2020) to arrange a daily regimen of activities for one's child / a child whose life is regimented this way
macrolepiota, mushroom native to Yunnan Province
(Tw) (vulgar) cunt (from Taiwanese 膣屄, Tai-lo pr. [tsi-bai]) / (slang) to fuck around with; (used as an intensifier) fucking; fucked up
chicken in rice wine / also translated drunken chicken
petty or mean persons
(often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese translation of the title of the 1993 self-help bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul")
(dialect) stingy / miserly / crafty / cunning

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