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卵: egg, ovum

Also: spawn, roe

JLPT N27 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

卯 and 丶 are drawn in

7 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ランran · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 卵黄らんおうegg yolk
  • 卵白らんぱくwhite of an egg, albumin
  • 卵巣らんそうovary
  • 卵管らんかんfallopian tube, oviduct
  • 鶏卵けいらんhens egg
  • 産卵するさんらんするlay eggs, spawn

たまごtamago · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 卵たまごegg, spawn, roe
  • 卵焼きたまごやきomelet
  • 卵形たまごがたoval, egg-shaped

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)

Spawn, egg.

Source: Wiktionary, 卵 (rev. 92160474), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Originally a pictograph that mirrored the shape of kneeling figures, it eventually evolved to represent two eggs nestled together in a nest.”
From the 卩 seal story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
卯

Also built on sign of the hare or rabbit (卯)

丶

Also built on dot (丶)

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Also read ラン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
卵 egg · 丶
vs柳 willow · 木
卵 has 丶 where 柳 has 木.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · luǎn

Same form: 卵 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
卵 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
卵 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin luǎn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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