IDENTITY
蛋dànegg
HSK 1Top 950
CORE MEANING
egg
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.eggHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 虫insect radical (chóng)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱疋虫
- gives the sound dàn (historical)
- crawler below (eggs hold life)
USAGE
Common words
鸡蛋jīdànegg
蛋糕dàngāocake
蛋白dànbáiegg white; protein
Graded examples
他买了两斤鸡蛋。Tā mǎi le liǎng jīn jīdàn.HSK2
He bought two jin of eggs.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Life (虫) waiting inside the shell — an egg.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #950
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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