蛋蛋
Chinese
| egg; oval shaped | egg; oval shaped | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (蛋蛋) |
蛋 | 蛋 | |
| 2nd round simp. | 旦旦 | ||
| alternative forms | 旦旦 informal (especially Cantonese) | ||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dàndàn → dàndan (toneless final syllable variant)
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ ㄉㄢˋ → ㄉㄢˋ ˙ㄉㄢ (toneless final syllable variant)
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàndån
- Wade–Giles: tan4-tan5
- Yale: dàn-dan
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann.dann
- Palladius: даньдань (danʹdanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tän⁵¹⁻⁵³ tän⁵¹/ → /tän⁵¹ d̥än¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: dan4 dan4-1
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: dandan
- Sinological IPA (key): /tan²¹³ tan²¹³⁻⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daan6-2 daan6-2 / daan6-4 daan6-2
- Yale: dáan dáan / dàahn dáan
- Cantonese Pinyin: daan6-2 daan6-2 / daan6-4 daan6-2
- Guangdong Romanization: dan6-2 dan6-2 / dan6-4 dan6-2
- Sinological IPA (key): /taːn²²⁻³⁵ taːn²²⁻³⁵/, /taːn²²⁻²¹ taːn²²⁻³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Note:
- daan6-2 daan6-2 — childish term for egg;
- daan6-4 daan6-2 — testicles.
Adverb
蛋蛋
Noun
蛋蛋
- (childish) egg
- (colloquial, childish) testicles; balls
- 9歲澳洲男孩札克（Zac）對於捏痛弟弟的蛋蛋很有罪惡感，特地寫信向他道歉。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2013 April 14, 捏痛弟弟蛋蛋 男孩道歉信瘋傳, 中央通訊社 (Central News Agency)
- 9 suì Àozhōu nánhái Zhákè (Zac) duìyú niē tòng dìdì de dàndan hěn yǒu zuì'ègǎn, tèdì xiěxìn xiàng tā dàoqiàn. [Pinyin]
- 9-year-old Australian boy Zac feels guilty that he pinched his brother's nuts, so he wrote him an apology.
9岁澳洲男孩札克（Zac）对于捏痛弟弟的蛋蛋很有罪恶感，特地写信向他道歉。 [MSC, simp.]
- (dialectal) fruit
- (Jin) glass marble
- (dialectal) any sphere-shaped object
Synonyms
- (testicles):
Dialectal synonyms of 睪丸 (“testicle”) [map]
Derived terms
- 切蛋蛋 (qiē dàndàn)