What 鳮 means
It names the same bird as 雞, 鷄, and 鸡.
Its ancestor is ancient: records list oracle-bone evidence and late-Shang bronze inscriptions for 雞. Classical glosses describe it as a domestic bird that knows the time; 鷄 is the 籀文 form written with 鳥. 鳮 keeps that reading in a compact 又鳥 shape.
Its job was orthographic economy. The form appears in the ROC list of 1935 and Singapore’s list of 1969. The change was standardization, not a new meaning. What looks different across fonts is font rendering, not emoji artwork.
Historical and specialist; it marks an alternate standard, not a new meaning.
For mainland simplified Chinese, write 鸡.
Who writes 鳮
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鳮 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 鳮
- Also called
- 鸡 · 雞 · 鷄
- Search it as
- 鳮 · chicken · jī · cangjie · variant · simplified · hanzi
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鳮\9CEECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.