🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

鸡肉

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jīròu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Chicken/ˈtʃɪk.ən/
nounadjectiveCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我今天中午吃了鸡肉饭。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.

    "The farmer feeds the chickens every morning."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Informal term meaning easily frightened or cowardly.

    "Don't be so chicken; jump into the pool!"

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'cicen', which is of Germanic origin and related to Dutch 'kieken' and German 'Küken'. Historically used to describe the young of domestic fowl, the term eventually expanded to refer to the adult bird and its meat.

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