炒蛋
chǎo dàn
Pinyin

Definition

炒蛋
 - 
chǎo dàn
  1. scrambled eggs

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

cǎi dàn
  1. 1 painted eggshell
  2. 2 Easter egg
  3. 3 (media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc)
  4. 4 post-credits scene
chǎo
  1. 1 to sauté
  2. 2 to stir-fry
  3. 3 to speculate
  4. 4 to hype
  5. 5 to fire (sb)
Dàn
  1. 1 variant: 蜑 Dàn
dàn gāo
  1. 1 cake
  2. 2 classifier: 块 kuài
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
jī dàn
  1. 1 (chicken) egg
  2. 2 hen's egg
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 classifier: 打 dá

Idioms (7)

生炒热卖
shēng chǎo rè mài
  1. 1 to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
苍蝇不叮无缝蛋
cāng ying bù dīng wú fèng dàn
  1. 1 lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. no smoke without a fire
鸡蛋碰石头
jī dàn pèng shí tou
  1. 1 lit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself
  3. 3 to overrate one's abilities
鸡蛋里挑骨头
jī dàn li tiāo gǔ tou
  1. 1 to look for bones in an egg
  2. 2 to find fault
  3. 3 to nitpick (idiom)
鸡飞蛋打
jī fēi dàn dǎ
  1. 1 the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken
  2. 2 a dead loss (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我要一个炒蛋,一个水煮蛋。
wǒ yào yī ge chǎo dàn ,yī ge shuǐzhǔ dàn 。
I want one scrambled egg, one boiled egg.
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我做得很好。我的拿手菜是番茄炒蛋。
wǒ zuò de hěn hǎo 。wǒ de náshǒu cài shì fānqié chǎodàn 。
I cook very well. My specialty is tomatoes with fried eggs.