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.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luǎn (luan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁵, leon^5-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lón
• Eastern Min (BUC): lâung / luāng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nn̄g / loán
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶loe; ⁶lu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luǎn
    • Wade–Giles: luan³
    • Yale: lwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: loan
    • Palladius: луань (luanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯än²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: leon⁵, leon^5-2
    • Yale: léuhn, léun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁵, loen^5-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁵, lên^5-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn¹³/, /lɵn¹³⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lón
    • Hakka Romanization System: lon`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lon³
    • Sinological IPA: /lon³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lâung / luāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃ɑuŋ²⁴²/, /l̃uaŋ³³/

Note:

• lâung - colloquial;
• luāng - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nn̄g / loán
    • Tâi-lô: nn̄g / luán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: nng, loarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /nŋ̍²²/, /luan⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /nŋ̍⁴¹/, /luan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /nŋ̍²²/, /luan⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /nŋ̍³³/, /luan⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /nŋ̍³³/, /luan⁴¹/

Note: nn̄g - vernacular, loán - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶loe; ⁶lu
    • MiniDict: loe^去; lu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³loe; ³lu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lø²³/, /lu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: lwanX, lwaX

Rime
Character	卵	卵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	盧管切	郎果切
Baxter	lwanX	lwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luɑnX/	/luɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷɑnX/	/luɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/luɑnX/	/luɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwanX/	/lwaX/
Li Rong	/luɑnX/	/luɑX/
Wang Li	/luɑnX/	/luɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/luɑnX/	/luɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luǎn	luǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lyun5	lo5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*k.rˤorʔ/, /*k.rˤorʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·roːlʔ/, /*ɡ·roːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卵	卵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luǎn	luǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ lwaX ›	‹ lwanX ›
Old Chinese	/*k.rˁorʔ/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)	/*k.rˁorʔ/
English	egg	egg
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卵	卵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8639	8643
Phonetic component	卵	卵
Rime group	歌	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	裸	卵
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·roːlʔ/	/*ɡ·roːnʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 卵

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

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Japanese

Kanji

卵

(grade 6 “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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