雞鳴

Chinese

		fowl; chicken	to cry (of birds)
trad. (雞鳴/鷄鳴)		雞/鷄	鳴
simp. (鸡鸣)		鸡	鸣

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīmíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gai¹ ming⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīmíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jimíng
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹-ming²
    • Yale: jī-míng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiming
    • Palladius: цзимин (czimin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ miŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gai¹ ming⁴
    • Yale: gāi mìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gai¹ ming⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gei¹ ming⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐi̯⁵⁵ mɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kej mjaeng

Rime
Character	雞	鳴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	古奚切	武兵切
Baxter	kej	mjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kei/	/mˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kei/	/mᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛi/	/miaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛj/	/miajŋ/
Li Rong	/kei/	/miɐŋ/
Wang Li	/kiei/	/mĭɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiei/	/mi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī	míng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gai1	ming4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤe  m.reŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*keː  mreŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	雞	鳴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī	míng
Middle Chinese	‹ kej ›	‹ mjæng ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁe/	/*m.reŋ/
English	fowl, chicken	cry (of birds or animals)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	雞	鳴
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13357	9216
Phonetic component	奚	鳴
Rime group	支	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	雞	明
Old Chinese	/*keː/	/*mreŋ/

Verb

雞鳴

1. (literary, of a rooster) to crow

   • 風雨淒淒，雞鳴喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     风雨凄凄，鸡鸣喈喈。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Fēngyǔ qīqī, jīmíng jiējiē. [Pinyin]

     Cold are the wind and the rain,
     And shrilly crows the cock.

Noun

雞鳴

1. (literary) cockcrow; dawn
2. (literary, historical) a kind of spear

Proper noun

雞鳴

1. (～鄉) Jiming (a township in Chengkou, Chongqing, China)