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蛋

蛋

See also: 疍

Translingual

Han character

蛋 (radical 142 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓人中一戈 (NOLMI), four-corner 17136)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1081, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32977
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1549, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2845, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+86CB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蛋
alt. forms 疍
蜑
蛋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (延) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唌 *l'aːn
誕 *l'aːnʔ
蜑 *l'aːnʔ
蛋 *l'aːns
硟 *slan, *l̥ʰjans
涎 *ljan, *lans
脠 *l̥ʰan, *hljan
梴 *l̥ʰan
鋋 *ɦljan, *lan
埏 *hljan, *lan
挻 *hljan
鯅 *hljan
延 *lan, *lans
筵 *lan
蜒 *lan
狿 *lan, *lans
郔 *lan
綖 *lan
莚 *lan, *lans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aːns) : phonetic 延 ‎(OC *lan, *lans) + semantic 虫 ‎(“snake, insect”). 延 is abbreviated to 疋.

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蛋
Reading # 1/1
No. 14245
Phonetic
component		 延
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 憚
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aːns/
Notes 通作彈分化字，本蜑異構

Definitions

蛋

  1. egg
    雞蛋 / 鸡蛋  ―  jīdàn  ―  chicken egg
    蛋殼 / 蛋壳  ―  dànké  ―  eggshell
  2. egg-shaped object
    跳蛋  ―  tiàodàn  ―  love egg
  3. (slang) ball; testicle
  4. suffix denoting “person of certain characteristics”, usually with a pejorative tone
    傻蛋  ―  shǎdàn  ―  goofball

See also

  • 卵 (luǎn, “egg”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

蛋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. an egg

Readings

Compounds

Usage notes

Seldom used in Japanese. Not used in isolation.

The egg sense and tamago reading is more commonly spelled either 玉子 or 卵.

Korean

Hanja

蛋 • ‎(dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蛋 (đản)

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