Onyomi: ラン · Kunyomi: たまご · Meanings: egg, ovum, roe, spawn
Kanji for egg, ovum, roe, spawn
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卵 originally comes from a pictograph of an egg. The shape represents an egg with something growing inside it. Because it directly showed an egg and life forming inside, 卵 came to mean egg.
卵 is the picture of an egg.
Imagine an egg with something inside waiting to hatch. That egg shape is 卵.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 卵 | たまご | eggs, egg, spawn, roe | common JLPT-N5 Noun |
| 卵 | かい | egg, eggshell | Noun |
| 卵 | らん | ovum, ovule, egg cell | Noun |
| 卵形 | らんけい | oval shape, egg shape | common Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 卵巣 | らんそう | ovary | common Noun |
| 卵白 | らんぱく | white of an egg, albumen | Noun |
| 卵焼き | たまごやき | rolled egg, rolled omelette (omelet) | Noun |
| 卵黄 | らんおう | egg yolk | Noun |
| 卵胞 | らんぽう | (ovarian) follicle | Noun |
| 卵子 | らんし | ovum, ovule, egg cell | common Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |