卵

See also: 卯 and 卬

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) , likely testicles – some seal characters clearly interpret this as loins. Compare development of 母 from breasts.

Han character

卵 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸中戈 (HHSLI), four-corner 7772₀, composition ⿰𠂑卪)

See also

• 蛋
• 鮞/鲕
• 鯤/鲲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2857
• Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 313, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5375

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		卵

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-row (“egg, nit”). Cognate with Tibetan སྲོ་མ (sro ma, “egg of a louse, nit, small bubble”).

鯤 may represent a doublet resulting from prefix preemption. Compare its variant 𡖉.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 卵

1. egg, ovum, roe, spawn
2. (entomology) fertilised egg
3. (regional) testicles

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Japanese

Kanji

卵

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. an egg

Readings

• Go-on: らん (ran)
• Kan-on: らん (ran)
• Kun: たまご (tamago)

Compounds

Compounds

• 卵焼(たまごやき) (tamagoyaki), 卵焼(たまごや)き (tamagoyaki): omelet, fried eggs
• 梵卵(ぼんらん) (bonran): world egg
• 卵黄(らんおう) (ran'ō): yolk
• 卵殻(らんかく) (rankaku): eggshell
• 卵子(らんし) (ranshi): ovum
• 卵生(らんせい) (ransei): oviparity
• 卵巣(らんそう) (ransō): ovary
• 卵白(らんぱく) (ranpaku): albumen

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
卵
たまご Grade: 6
kun'yomi

卵

Compound of . The final ko voices to go due to rendaku (連濁).

Alternative forms

• 玉子

Noun

卵(たまご) • (tamago) 

1. an egg

   This term in Japanese is nearly as broad in use as English egg, indicating an egg as laid by various oviparous organisms, and egg as used in cooking. For the more specific biological sense of ovum, see 卵子 (ranshi).

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
卵
らん Grade: 6
on'yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 卵 (lwan^X).

Noun

卵(らん) • (ran) 

1. ovum

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Korean

Hanja

卵 • (ran>nan) (hangeul 란>난, McCune–Reischauer ran)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 卵 (noãn)

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