kana — meaning in English
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English meaning
- chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- hen noun An adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs.
- kana noun The two Japanese phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, in which each symbol represents a spoken syllable rather than a whole word or idea.
Senses
kana is used for these senses in English:
- chicken (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- chicken (archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
- gallinaceous (zoology) related to the genus Gallus, poultry; notably said of the order Galliformes.
- kana The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
chicken — full definition
- noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
- noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
- noun (informal) A cowardly person.
- adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
- verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.
hen — full definition
- noun An adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs.
- noun An adult female of various other bird species.
- noun A casual, often affectionate term for a woman, especially in British and Scottish speech.