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Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 雞
- Simplified chinese
- 鸡
- Hanyu pinyin
- jī
- Wade giles
- chi
- Ipa
- [tɕi ́ ]
- Romanization
- kiê
- Yale romanization
- gāi
- Jyutping
- gai1
- Hokkien poj
- ke / koe
- Fuzhou buc
- giĕ
- Jian ou romanized
- gái
- Baxter 1992
- * ke
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * kˤe
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Zodiac rooster, showing the jī (雞) character for rooster Chinese paper cutting The Rooster (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞/鷄) or Chicken, is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch symbol 酉.
In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rooster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.