Character Details
| egg | Ascii: 22992 | w437 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 蛋 | dàn | dan | 4 | 疋 (bolt of cloth) + 虫 (insect) → egg | 蛋 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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At the zoo, most animals like to eat insect eggs as a snack and extra source of protein. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - How many eggs do you want? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 145 - 臼 | jiù | tiger | mortar | mortar shape | 舅 臼 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 疋 (bolt of cloth) + 虫 (insect) → egg | 虫 (semantic) | 旦 (phonetic) | phonetic from 旦 | ||||||||