1 cock

2 rooster

1 Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader

1 fowl

2 chicken

3 classifier: 只 zhī

4 (slang) prostitute

1 chicken stock

2 chicken soup

3 (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)

1 chicken meat

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)

2 fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off

3 to go for wool and come back shorn

1 to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom)

2 to pilfer

3 to dally with women

4 to have affairs

1 lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)

2 fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter

3 also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[shā jī yān yòng niú dāo]

1 lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck