雞

Core sense: domestic fowl / chicken. Depending on context, the glyph functions as:

• Livestock: A commodity, food source, or measure of wealth.
• Temporal Marker: A signal for dawn or the first watch of the morning (associated with crowing).
• Ritual/Divinatory Object: A sacrificial animal or an omen.

• Gender and Age: The glyph does not inherently distinguish between gender (cock vs. hen) or age (chick vs. adult). These are determined by accompanying verbs; for example, if the bird is crowing (啼), it is a rooster.
• Wild vs. Domestic: In contexts involving wild birds, note the distinction—or occasional overlap—between 雞 (domestic fowl) and 雉 (pheasant).

// Readings: Fanqie reading 古奚; Tang-period reading //gei.

• Variants: Semantic variants U+9DC4 and U+9CEE appear in various manuscripts. Simplified form is U+9E21.

Avoid specifying "rooster" or "hen" in translation unless the text provides explicit evidence; retain neutral terms such as "chicken" or "fowl" otherwise.