Chinese Character Wiki
卵

luǎn

egg

Original meaning: 

scrotum

Pictograph of the scrotum of a male's penis. The meaning later shifted to "egg", "ovum", and "spawn".

Evolution

卵 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
卵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
卵 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
卵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

卵  

luǎn

egg; ovum; roe; spawn; (coll.) testicles; (old) penis; (expletive) fucking

Most common words with 卵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

卵

egg

卵巢

ovary

卵子

testicles

输卵管

oviduct

排卵

to ovulate

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

孵

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.rˤorʔ (dialect: *-r > *-j)

lwaX

luǎn

egg

*k.rˤorʔ

lwanX

luǎn

egg


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.0686% of movies

2389th most common character in movies

2008th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5375

Shuowen

“卵，凡物無乳者卵生。象形。”


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