HSK 2 · Food

鸡蛋 jīdàn “egg” in Chinese

Traditional 雞蛋

What 鸡蛋 means

  1. egg
  2. (chicken) egg
  3. hen’s egg

Measure word 个 gè or 打 dá · 一个鸡蛋 yí ge jīdàn

How to say 鸡蛋

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale鸡jī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale蛋dàn4th tone, falling

鸡蛋 in a sentence

  1. 我不喜欢吃鸡蛋。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan chī jīdàn.

    I don’t like eating eggs.

    Sentence #4673808 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 不好意思，请问鸡蛋在哪儿？

    Bùhǎoyìsi, qǐngwèn jīdàn zài nǎr?

    Excuse me, where are the eggs?

    Sentence #11702399 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这个季节鸡蛋不贵。

    Zhè ge jìjié jīdàn bú guì.

    Eggs are cheap this season.

    Sentence #1517794 from Tatoeba

How 鸡蛋 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 鸡 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
鸡jīfowl
  • 又again · yòu
  • 鸟bird · diǎo

Memory aidA bird 鸟. The 又 is a simplified stand-in for 奚 (xī), which gave the sound in the full form 雞.

The character 蛋 (dàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
蛋dànegg
  • 疋roll of cloth · pǐ
  • 虫insect · chóngMeaning part

虫 hints at the meaning (insect); 延 (yán) hints at the sound. Compare it with dàn.

How to write 鸡蛋

鸡 7 strokes · 蛋 11 strokes

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鸡蛋 (jīdàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 鸡蛋 (jīdàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 鸡蛋

Words with 鸡

鸡jī · chicken

Words with 蛋

蛋糕dàngāo · cake蛋白质dànbáizhì · protein

More words: Food & Drink

晚饭wǎnfàn · evening meal午饭wǔfàn · lunch早饭zǎofàn · breakfast牛奶niúnǎi · milk西瓜xīguā · watermelon羊肉yángròu · lamb鱼yú · fish面条miàntiáo · noodles

In the Chinese zodiac

鸡jī · Year of the Rooster

鸡 is the rooster of the Chinese zodiac.

FAQs

鸡蛋 (jīdàn) means “egg” or “(chicken) egg”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it jīdàn: jī with a 1st tone, then dàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 鸡蛋 is written 雞蛋. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè) or 打 (dá). For example, one egg is 一个鸡蛋 (yí ge jīdàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jidan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 鸡蛋 from the suggestions. Typing jidan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
鸡蛋 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.