Egg in Chinese (Mandarin): 鸡蛋 (jīdàn)
鸡蛋
jīdàn
egg
- Simplified
- 鸡蛋
- Traditional
- 雞蛋
- Pinyin
- jīdàn
- Typed as
- jidan
Use it in a sentence
这是一个鸡蛋。
這是一個雞蛋。
This is an egg.
The characters in 鸡蛋
鸡 / 雞
Chicken. 鸟 (bird) is on the right.
7 strokes
蛋
Egg.
11 strokes
鸡蛋 is a "chicken egg". A duck egg is 鸭蛋 (yādàn).
More examples with 鸡蛋
我早上吃鸡蛋。
我早上吃雞蛋。
Wǒ zǎoshang chī jīdàn.
I eat eggs in the morning.
篮子里有三个鸡蛋。
籃子裡有三個雞蛋。
Lánzi li yǒu sān gè jīdàn.
There are three eggs in the basket.
How to write 鸡蛋 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
鸡 7 strokes
蛋 11 strokes
In Traditional characters:
雞 18 strokes
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