Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1901 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 19

Meaning: chicken

Kunyomi: にわとり とり

Onyomi: ケイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: bird

Examples

Onyomi Examples

トリニク chicken meat, fowl, poultry, bird meat

ケイラン hen's egg

ヨウケイ poultry raising, poultry farming, chicken farming

セイケイ adult chicken, mature fowl

Kunyomi Examples

にわとり chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), domestic chicken, chicken meat

小屋 にわとりごや henhouse, chicken coop

とり bird, bird meat (esp. chicken meat), fowl, poultry

にわとり chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), domestic chicken, chicken meat

あとり brambling (bird) (Fringilla montifringilla)

頭青花 ずあおあとり chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)