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"(coll.) hen's egg" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
鸡子儿 雞子兒 jī zǐ r (coll.) hen's egg
Chinese Pinyin Translation
鸡蛋 雞蛋 jī dàn (chicken) egg / hen's egg / CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2] syn
皮蛋 pí dàn century egg / preserved egg syn
彩蛋 cǎi dàn painted eggshell / Easter egg / (media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc) / post-credits scene
荷包蛋 hé bāo dàn poached egg / egg fried on both sides
茶叶蛋 茶葉蛋 chá yè dàn tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)
松花蛋 sōng huā dàn century egg / preserved egg syn
蛋品 dàn pǐn egg products / egg-based products
水煮蛋 shuǐ zhǔ dàn boiled egg / soft-boiled egg
蛋炒饭节 蛋炒飯節 dàn chǎo fàn jié Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
太阳蛋 太陽蛋 tài yang dàn fried egg / sunny-side-up egg
立蛋 lì dàn egg balancing (activity popular in China at Lichun 立春[Li4 chun1] etc) / to stand an egg on its broad end
流沙包 liú shā bāo salted egg custard bun / lava bun (steamed bun with a sweet runny egg custard filling, a popular dim sum)
温泉蛋 溫泉蛋 wēn quán dàn onsen tamago / hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water)
温玉 溫玉 wēn yù onsen tamago / hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 温玉 "ontama", which is an abbr. for 温泉玉子 "onsen tamago")
雷 léi thunder / (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine / (coll.) to shock / to stun / to astound / (Tw) (coll.) spoiler / (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) syn
罩 zhào to cover / to spread over / a cover / a shade / a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect / to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome / incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住[zhao4de2zhu4]) to have things under control / to be able to handle it syn
没法儿 沒法兒 méi fǎ r (coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ... / it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful) syn
蛋清 dàn qīng (coll.) egg white syn
壳 殼 ké (coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc) / case / casing / housing (of a machine or device) syn
卵 luǎn egg / ovum / spawn / (coll.) testicles / (old) penis / (expletive) fucking syn
鸭子儿 鴨子兒 yā zǐ r (coll.) duck's egg syn
母鸡 母雞 mǔ jī hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1) syn
蛋鸡 蛋雞 dàn jī laying hen
很 hěn very / quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element) syn
草鸡 草雞 cǎo jī free-range chicken / (dialect) hen / cowardly syn
莱 萊 lái name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album syn
恨 hèn to hate / to regret syn
狠 hěn ruthless / fierce / ferocious / determined / resolute / to harden (one's heart) / old variant of 很[hen3] syn
痕 hén scar / traces syn
藜 lí name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album syn
哏 hěn old variant of 狠[hen3] / old variant of 很[hen3] / also used as an exclamation of anger syn
埘 塒 shí hen roost syn
鷭 fán water-hen / gallinula
鷕 yǎo cry of hen pheasant
拫 hén to pull / to drag / to stop
佷 hěn to act contrary to
噷 hèn interjection expressing disagreement, reproach or dissatisfaction
妻子管得严 妻子管得嚴 qī zi guǎn dé yán hen-pecked male (esp. one obliged to forsake male friends)
钱树 錢樹 qián shù money tree / prostitute / hen that lays golden eggs
鸡婆 雞婆 jī pó (dialect) hen / prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering / nosy / (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
卵用鸡 卵用雞 luǎn yòng jī laying hen
白尾鹞 白尾鷂 bái wěi yào (bird species of China) hen harrier (Circus cyaneus)
灰菜 huī cài fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
𬸪 鷭 fán water-hen / gallinula / vanadium
一块 一塊 yī kuài a piece / a chunk / (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as 這|这[zhe4]) aspect / area / dimension (Example: 情感這一塊|情感这一块[qing2gan3 zhe4 yi1kuai4] "the emotional aspect (of it)") / (coll.) one yuan / a dollar / together / in the same place / in company syn
礼拜 禮拜 lǐ bài to attend a religious service / (coll.) week / (coll.) Sunday syn
末了 mò liǎo (coll.) final part / last bit / (coll.) in the end / finally syn
大牛 dà niú (coll.) leading light / superstar / badass / (coll.) higher-priced model of Lamborghini
奶子 nǎi zi (coll.) milk / (coll.) breast / booby / tit syn
促狭 促狹 cù xiá (coll.) teasing / mischievous / (coll.) cunning / sly
滴管 dī guǎn intravenous drip tube / dropper / eyedropper / (coll.) pipette / (coll.) burette / drip-irrigation pipe (abbr. for 滴灌管[di1guan4guan3])
够 夠 gòu enough (sufficient) / enough (too much) / (coll.) (before adj.) really / (coll.) to reach by stretching out syn
损 損 sǔn to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to ridicule / to deride / (coll.) caustic / sarcastic / nasty / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ syn
炸 zhà to burst / to explode / to blow up / to bomb / (coll.) to fly into a rage / (coll.) to scamper off / to scatter syn
熊 xióng bear / (coll.) to scold / to rebuke / (coll.) weak / incapable syn
爪 zhuǎ (coll.) foot of an animal or bird / (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc syn
逗 dòu to tease (playfully) / to entice / (coll.) to joke / (coll.) funny / amusing / to stay / to sojourn / brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读[dou4]) syn
闸 閘 zhá sluice / sluice gate / to dam up water / (coll.) brake / (coll.) electric switch syn
垫补 墊補 diàn bu (coll.) to cover a shortfall by using funds intended for another purpose or by borrowing some money / (coll.) to snack syn
蹦跶 蹦躂 bèng da (coll.) to jump about / to be active / to be lively / (coll.) (fig.) to struggle (before succumbing) / to be alive and kicking (esp. toward the end of one's life)
跟手 gēn shǒu (coll.) while doing it / on the way through / (coll.) immediately / at once / (of a touch screen) responsive to the user's finger movements syn
过节儿 過節兒 guò jié r (coll.) grudge / strife / (coll.) good manners
𪨊 㞞 sóng (coll.) semen / (coll.) weak and incompetent
榆木脑袋 榆木腦袋 yú mù nǎo dai (coll.) thickhead / (coll.) thick skull (i.e. the brain of a thickhead)
念想 niàn xiǎng to miss (the presence of) / to cherish the memory of / aspiration / desire / sth one keeps thinking about / (coll.) keepsake / memento / (coll.) impression (of sb or sth in one's mind)
念想儿 念想兒 niàn xiang r (coll.) keepsake / memento / (coll.) impression (of sb or sth in one's mind)
串串 chuàn chuàn (coll.) skewers / barbecued food on sticks / (in Sichuan) Sichuan-style hotpot skewers (abbr. for 串串香[chuan4 chuan4 xiang1]) / (coll.) non-pedigree pet (esp. dog or cat) / mutt / mixed-breed cat
蛋白 dàn bái egg white / protein / albumen syn
坏蛋 壞蛋 huài dàn bad egg / scoundrel / bastard syn
蛋黄 蛋黃 dàn huáng egg yolk syn
打散 dǎ sàn to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg) syn
子 zǐ son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / (prefix) sub- syn
卵磷脂 luǎn lín zhī lecithin (phospholipid found in egg yolk)
弄巧成拙 nòng qiǎo chéng zhuō to overreach oneself / to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face syn
煎蛋 jiān dàn fried egg
摇旗呐喊 搖旗吶喊 yáo qí nà hǎn to wave flags and shout battle cries (idiom) / to egg sb on / to give support to syn
卵形 luǎn xíng oval / egg-shaped (leaves in botany)
蛋卷 dàn juǎn egg roll
老本 lǎo běn capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk syn
鸡蛋清 雞蛋清 jī dàn qīng egg white
春卷 春捲 chūn juǎn egg roll / spring roll
蛋挞 蛋撻 dàn tà egg tart (colloquial pr. [dan4ta3])
蛋塔 dàn tǎ egg tart
种蛋 種蛋 zhǒng dàn breeding egg
咸鸭蛋 鹹鴨蛋 xián yā dàn salted duck egg
煮蛋 zhǔ dàn boiled egg
打蛋器 dǎ dàn qì egg beater
卵黄 卵黃 luǎn huáng egg yolk syn
坏分子 壞份子 huài fèn zǐ bad element / bad egg / troublemaker syn
蛋 dàn egg / CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2] / oval-shaped thing syn
埙 塤 xūn ocarina / wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes
以卵击石 以卵擊石 yǐ luǎn jī shí lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom) / to attempt the impossible / to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
擂鼓鸣金 擂鼓鳴金 léi gǔ míng jīn to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
击鼓鸣金 擊鼓鳴金 jī gǔ míng jīn to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom) / fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
覆巢无完卵 覆巢無完卵 fù cháo wú wán luǎn lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact / no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)
蛋花汤 蛋花湯 dàn huā tāng clear soup containing beaten egg and green leafy vegetable / eggdrop soup
毈 duàn infertile egg
殈 xù damage egg so it does not hatch
卵模 luǎn mó ootype (site of egg composition in flatworm biology)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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