鸡鷄★繁◎异；雞★异◎常★常
jī雞，形声，从隹，奚声，本义为鸟名，通常指家鸡。又作“鷄”，意符改为鳥。《异体字表》以“雞”为异体字。清代俗字、《手头字》、《简体字表》用符号又代替“鷄”的音符，《简化字表》据此进一步把意符类推简化，作“鸡”。
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隶jī
【析形】早期的甲骨文和金文是象形字，字形像一只嘴短、头部有冠、短翅正在鸣叫的公鸡之形。后在象形形体的基础上加注声符“奚”。鸡属于鸟类，故小篆字形省变象形整体为隹旁（异体作鸟旁），变成从隹（或鸟）、奚声的形声字。隶书字形多作雞，从隹。今简化字作“鸡”，从鸟，原声旁“奚”简化作无义符号“又”。
【释义】《说文》：“知时畜也。”本义是鸡。早在三四千年前的商代，汉民族就已将捕获的活野鸡用绳子拴住脚饲养，慢慢使其变为不会飞的家禽。作为家禽的鸡，除了用来食用之外，最大的作用是司晨报时，[金鸡报晓]、[闻鸡起舞]等成语均与此有关。鸡在中国传统文化的十二生肖中居第十。鸡不能高飞，体积偏小，故也常作为反面陪衬，如[鸡头凤尾]、[鹤立鸡群]、[杀鸡焉用牛刀]等，又如[鸡毛蒜皮]、[呆若木鸡]等皆是。
【shape analysis】The character in early Oracle and Bronze Inscriptions was a pictograph,which was shaped like a whistling rooster with short beak,crown on head and short wings.Later,the word was added 奚(xī)as a phonetic sign.In Small Seal script,the character was transformed into a pictophonetic character.The original pictograph was simplified into 隹(the variant form of鸟)as an ideogram and 奚 as a phonetic sign.
【original meaning】Chicken.As far back to Shang Dynasty 3 or 4 thousands years ago,people of Han nationality raised live pheasants so that these pheasants gradually became poultry.
鸡鷄；雞jī
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【提示】鸟，不要错写成乌。
*鸡（鷄）〔雞〕jī
7画 又部 一种家禽。顶部有肉冠；翅短不能高飞。公鸡能报晓，母鸡能产蛋。