蛋

See also: 疍 and 卵
蛋 U+86CB, 蛋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-86CB
← 蛊
[U+86CA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蛌 →
[U+86CC]

Translingual

Han character

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

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
variant forms 疍
蜑
旦 second round simplified
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.

Etymology

Pronunciation
Note:
  • tàn - vernacular;
  • tān - literary.
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
  5. Alternative form of 蜑 (dàn).

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 睪丸 (“testicle”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 外腎, 腎
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 睪丸, 精巢
Mandarin Beijing 卵子兒
Harbin 卵子兒
Jinan 球蛋
Luoyang 蛋子兒, 蛋
Wanrong 子
Xi'an 蛋子兒
Yinchuan 卵子
Lanzhou 脬子兒, 腎
Ürümqi 脬卵子, 卵子
Wuhan 卵子, 卵蛋, 卵坨
Chengdu 卵, 卵蛋, 蛋蛋, 卵子, 敲敲兒
Guiyang 卵蛋
Liuzhou 卵考子, 考子
Yangzhou 卵蛋, 卵子子
Nanjing 卵子
Cantonese Hong Kong 春, 春子, 波子
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 核
Kuala Lumpur 春仔
Gan Lichuan 順子
Pingxiang 卵坨子
Hakka Meixian 核卵
Yudu 卵子
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 核卵
Liudui (S. Sixian) 核卵
Hsinchu (Hailu) 核卵
Dongshi (Dabu) 核卵
Hsinchu (Raoping) 核卵
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 核卵
Hong Kong 核卵
Sabah 核卵
Senai 核
Singkawang 核卵
Huizhou Jixi 卵子
Jin Xinzhou 蛋籽子
Min Dong Fuzhou 𡳞核子
Min Nan Xiamen 𡳞核, 腎子
Quanzhou 𡳞核, 腎子
Zhangzhou 𡳞核, 腎子
Taipei 𡳞核, 𡳞脬核仔
Kaohsiung 𡳞核, 𡳞核仔
Tainan 𡳞核, 𡳞核仔
Taichung 𡳞核仔
Wuqi 𡳞核
Hsinchu 𡳞核, 𡳞核仔
Taitung 𡳞核仔
Lukang 𡳞核, 𡳞核仔
Sanxia 𡳞核
Yilan 𡳞核
Kinmen 𡳞核
Magong 𡳞核
Penang 𡳞核, 核, 𡳞脬子
Shantou 𡳞核
Haifeng 𡳞脬核
Haikou 𡳞脬仁
Leizhou 𡳞脬子, 𡳞脬核, 核子
Pinghua Nanning 卵子
Wu Shanghai 卵子
Suzhou 卵子
Hangzhou 卵子
Wenzhou 卵子, 卵袋子, 陰袋子
Danyang 卵脬黃, 卵子黃
Jinhua 老核子
Ningbo 卵黃, 卵袋黃
Xiang Loudi 考子, 卵子

Compounds
Derived terms from 蛋

Japanese

Kanji
蛋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. an egg

Readings
  • Go-on: だん (dan)
  • Kan-on: たん (tan)
  • Kun: たまご (tamago, 蛋)

Compounds
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)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蛋 (đản)

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