吃雞

Chinese

		to eat	fowl; chicken
trad. (吃雞/吃鷄)		吃	雞/鷄
simp. (吃鸡)		吃	鸡
Literally: “to eat chicken”.

Etymology

Short for 大吉大利，晚上吃雞／大吉大利，晚上吃鸡, a calque of English winner, winner, chicken dinner used in the 2017 videogame PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chījī

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ ㄐㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hek³ gai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chījī
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ ㄐㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chihji
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹-chi¹
    • Yale: chr̄-jī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyji
    • Palladius: чицзи (čiczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hek³ gai¹
    • Yale: hek gāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hek⁸ gai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hég³ gei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛːk̚³ kɐi̯⁵⁵/

Verb

吃⫽雞 (verb-object) (intransitive)

1. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) to win in a game of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or other similar video games
2. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) to play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or other similar video games
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 吃,‎ 雞 / 鸡 (jī).

Synonyms

• (Cantonese) 食雞／食鸡

Noun

吃雞

1. (Mandarin, neologism, nickname) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or other similar video games

Synonyms

• (Cantonese) 食雞／食鸡

Related terms

• Japanese: ドン勝 (don-katsu)