蛋

See also 旦

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 疋 + semantic 虫 (“snake, insect”)

疋 is a corruption of the original phonetic 延.

Han character

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

1. egg, eggs
2. term of abuse
3. dam

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蛋 (Yale daan2)

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Japanese

Kanji

蛋 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. an egg
2. a barbarian

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: たまご (tamago)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

蛋 (pinyin dàn (dan4), Wade-Giles tan⁴)

Derived terms

• 白蛋白 (albumin)
• 蛋撻, 蛋塔 (custard tart)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蛋 (đản)