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sign of the Chinese zodiac

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Traditional chinese
Simplified chinese
Hanyu pinyin
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

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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.

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