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Translingual
Han character
卵 (radical 26, 卩+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸中戈 (HHSLI), four-corner 77720, composition ⿰𠂑卪)
References
- KangXi: page 159, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2857
- Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 313, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5375
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
卵 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 卵 | ||
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| Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (卵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 卵 | *ɡ·roːlʔ, *ɡ·roːnʔ |
| 關 | *kroːn |
| 関 | *kroːn |
| 聯 | *ɡ·ron |
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-row (“egg, nit”). Cognate with Tibetan སྲོ་མ (sro ma, “egg of a louse, nit, small bubble”).
鯤 (OC *kuːn) may represent a doublet resulting from prefix preemption. Compare its variant 𡖉.
Pronunciation
Definitions
卵
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 陰莖 (“penis; male genitalia”) [map] | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 玉莖、陽具、陽物、陰體、人道、身根 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 陰莖、陽具 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 雞巴、卵子、雀子 †、小雞兒 † |
| Taiwan | 雞雞、肉棒、老二、命根、命根子、小弟弟、小鳥 † | |
| Harbin | 雞巴、雞巴嘚兒、雞巴頭子、嘚兒、牛子、老二、二哥、腿兒、牛牛兒 †、小牛子 †、家雀兒 † | |
| Jinan | 屌、小雞兒 †、小雞雞 † | |
| Muping | 鴨子、雞子、雞巴、屌、小鴨兒 † | |
| Luoyang | 雞巴、屌、雞巴兒 †、小雞兒雞兒 † | |
| Jiedian | 鴨子、鴨兒 † | |
| Xi'an | 㞗、錘子、牛牛兒 † | |
| Xining | 雞巴、㞗、錘子、雞雞 † | |
| Xuzhou | 屌、雞巴、雞尜尜、屌頭子、老二、二哥、一家人兒、打種的 dated、小雞兒 †、雞兒 †、尜尜 †、小老雀兒 †、老雀兒 † | |
| Yinchuan | 㞗、雞巴、雞雞 † | |
| Lanzhou | 㞗、牛牛子 † | |
| Ürümqi | 㞗、㞗把子、錘子、雞雞 †、㞗㞗 † | |
| Wuhan | 鴨蒂、雞巴、卵、雀雀 †、鴨鴨 †、雞雞 † | |
| Chengdu | 錘子、雞巴、雞棍兒、雀雀兒、雀雀、麻雀兒、毛鰱魚、老二、㞗、雞雞 †、小雞兒 †、小麻雀兒 †、小雀雀兒 † | |
| Guiyang | 雞巴、大雞巴、乾雞巴、馬雞巴、卵子、㞗、屌、下二哥、二哥、甩甩、錘錘 dated、錘子 dated、雞雞 †、小雞兒 †、雞兒 †、麻雀 †、小麻雀 †、雀雀 † | |
| Liuzhou | 鳥、卵、二老爺、大頭蟲、鳥崽 † | |
| Yangzhou | 雞巴、屌子、屌、卵子、麻雀子 † | |
| Nanjing | 雞巴、屌、麻雀、小麻雀兒 † | |
| Hefei | 屌、雞巴、尕尕雞 †、尕雞 † | |
| Nantong | 屌兒、屌 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 㞗、𨳍、賓舟 †、脧 †、脧脧 †、㞗脧 †、脧仔 †、姑姑 † |
| Hong Kong | 㞗、𨳍、𡳞、賓舟、脧 †、脧脧 †、脧脧仔 †、姑姑 †、雀仔 †、弟弟、細佬、何B仔、子孫根、祠堂、第三隻腳、第五肢 | |
| Shunde | 㞗 | |
| Foshan | 㞗 | |
| Zhongshan | 㞗、𨳍 | |
| Dongguan | 𡳞、鵝必 † | |
| Hong Kong (Weitou) | 𡳞 | |
| Taishan | 𡳞、雀 †、雀仔 † | |
| Doumen | 㞗脧、𨳍 | |
| Kaiping | 𡳞 | |
| Shaoguan | 𨳍 | |
| Yunfu | 𨳍 | |
| Yangjiang | 㞗、𨳍 | |
| Xinyi | 𨳍 | |
| Nanning | 𨳍 | |
| Kuala Lumpur | 㞗 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 卵、卵雞子 †、卵雞 † |
| Lichuan | 卵、老二 | |
| Pingxiang | 卵、卵仔 †、雞仔 † | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 膦棍、膦仔、脧仔 † |
| Xingning | 脧哩、膦棍 | |
| Huidong | 膦棍、脧仔 | |
| Qujiang | 膦棍 | |
| Xiaosanjiang | 膦棍、脧 | |
| Changting | 膦子 | |
| Pingyu | 膦 | |
| Wuping | 膦 | |
| Liancheng | 膦、脧 | |
| Ninghua | 脧 | |
| Yudu | 卵、卵子 †、尒卵子 † | |
| Ruijin | 卵陀 | |
| Shicheng | 卵梗 | |
| Shangyou | 卵 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 膦棍 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 膦棍 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 膦棍 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 膦棍 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 膦棍 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 朘子 | |
| Hong Kong | 膦 | |
| Sabah | 脧仔 | |
| Senai | 膦棍 | |
| Singkawang | 朘 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 鳥、老八鳥、八鳥 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 㞗、雞巴、雀兒、雞雞 †、狗雞兒 † |
| Xinzhou | 㞗、雞巴、雞雞、二掌櫃、小腹、雞溜子 †、雞溜 † | |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 䐯、䐯仔、䐯䐯仔 † |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 䐯鳥、鳥鳥囝 † |
| Fuqing | 䐯、鳥 † | |
| Matsu | 欛欛 | |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 𡳞鳥、𡳞𦉎、𡳞 |
| Quanzhou | 𡳞鳥、𡳞𦉎、𡳞 | |
| Zhangzhou | 𡳞鳥、𡳞𦉎、𡳞 | |
| Taipei | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Kaohsiung | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Tainan | 𡳞鳥、戛、訶 | |
| Taichung | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Wuqi | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Hsinchu | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Taitung | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Lukang | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Sanxia | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Yilan | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Kinmen | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Magong | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Penang | 𡳞鳥、小弟 | |
| Philippines (Manila) | 𡳞鳥 | |
| Pingnan | 㞗 | |
| Chaozhou | 𡳞鳥、𡳞 | |
| Shantou | 𡳞鳥、𡳞 | |
| Johor Bahru | 𡳞 | |
| Haikou | 屌、鳥 † | |
| Leizhou | 𡳞、鳥、殼車 | |
| Pinghua | Nanning | 𨳍、麻鳥、二老弟 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 卵、屌屌 †、屌屌頭 †、小雞雞 †、麻鳥 † |
| Suzhou | 卵、鳥、雞雞 †、小卵 †、長生果 † | |
| Hangzhou | 雀兒、八屌、小八屌 †、麻雀兒 †、麻油壺兒 † | |
| Wenzhou | 卵脬、卵脬兒、臀卵脬、頹、脬兒 †、脬脬兒 †、奶哥鳥兒 † | |
| Chongming | 卵、卵子、卵卵 †、小尿螺 † | |
| Danyang | 卵、卵子、屌子、屌、雞巴、雞雞 †、小雀雀 †、雀雀 †、八八 †、八雞 † | |
| Jinhua | 老八兒、聊子、雀、八兒八兒 † | |
| Ningbo | 卵、卵子、卵瓜瓜 †、瓜瓜 † | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 卵、雞巴、掉它、太鬍子、雞雞 †、鳥鳥 †、鳥 †、梗梗 † |
| Shuangfeng | 卵子、雞蓀子 † | |
| Loudi | 雞巴、卵、勺欛腦殼、雞雞 †、雞崽唧 † | |
| Note | † - of a boy | |
Compounds
Derived terms from 卵
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 卵 – see 𡳞 (“male genitalia; penis; etc.”). (This character, 卵, is a variant form of 𡳞.) |
Japanese
Kanji
卵
- an egg
Readings
Compounds
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
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| 卵 |
| たまご Grade: 6 |
| kun’yomi |
From 玉 (tama, “ball”) + 子 (ko, “child, small thing”). The ko reading for 子 changes to go as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
卵 (hiragana たまご, rōmaji tamago)
- an egg, including fish roe
- 1999 September 23, “ウィング・エッグ・エルフ [Wing Egg Elf]”, in Vol.5 (in Japanese), Konami:
- たまごのカラに身を包む天使。大きな羽で攻撃を防ぐ。
- Tamago no kara ni mi o tsutsumu tenshi. Ōki na hane de kōgeki o fusegu.
- An angel sheltered inside an eggshell. It fends off attacks with its massive wings.
- たまごのカラに身を包む天使。大きな羽で攻撃を防ぐ。
- 2000 July 13, “ドラゴン・エッガー [Dragon Egger]”, in Pharaoh’s Servant -ファラオのしもべ- (in Japanese), Konami:
- 卵のカラをかぶっているドラゴン。子供と間違えると痛い目にあうぞ!
- Tamago no kara o kabutte iru doragon. Kodomo to machigaeru to itaime ni au zo!
- A dragon who shelters in an eggshell. Never mistake him for a literal baby!
- 卵のカラをかぶっているドラゴン。子供と間違えると痛い目にあうぞ!
- 2003 July 17, “ジェノサイドキングサーモン [Genocide King Salmon]”, in 暗黒の侵略者 [Invader of Darkness] (in Japanese), Konami:
- 暗黒海の主として恐れられている巨大なシャケ。その卵は暗黒界一の美味として知られている。
- Ankokukai no nushi to shite osorerarete iru kyodai na shake. Sono tamago wa Ankokukaiichi no bimi to shiteshirarete iru.
- A giant salmon worst feared in the Dark Sea. Its roe is best known as the ultimate delicacy of the Dark World.
- 暗黒海の主として恐れられている巨大なシャケ。その卵は暗黒界一の美味として知られている。
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- the beginning or start of something (compare the uses of English terms kernel and seed)
- a beginner or rookie at something
- 1988 July 30 [Jul 25 1985], Fujiko F. Fujio, “山寺グラフィティ [Mountain Temple Graffiti]”, in 宇宙船製造法 [How to Build a Spaceship] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 3), volume 3 (fiction, in Japanese), 6th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 106:
- ぼく、加藤広康。イラストレーターの卵。
- Boku, Katō Hiroyasu. Irasutorētā no tamago.
- My name’s Katō Hiroyasu. I’m a rookie illustrator.
- ぼく、加藤広康。イラストレーターの卵。
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Usage notes
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 |
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| 卵 |
| らん Grade: 6 |
| on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 卵 (MC luɑnX).
Pronunciation
Noun
- an ovum
References
Korean
Hanja
卵 • (ran>nan)
Vietnamese
Han character
卵 (noãn)
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