dàn
Pinyin

Definition

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dàn
  1. egg
  2. CL:個|个[gè],打[dá]
  3. oval-shaped thing
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Dàn
  1. variant of 蜑[Dàn]

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
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
xià dàn
  1. 1 to lay eggs

Idioms (6)

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)
鸟不拉屎,鸡不生蛋
niǎo bù lā shǐ , jī bù shēng dàn
  1. 1 lit. (a place where) birds don't defecate and hens don't lay eggs (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. god-forsaken
  3. 3 remote and desolate

Sample Sentences

媳妇儿啊,看看我们的小宝贝儿,这脸蛋儿多可爱!但他自个儿在这儿玩儿,好像有点儿孤单。我们再生个孩子,给他做个伴儿吧!
xífur a ,kànkan wǒmen de xiǎo bǎobèir ,zhè liǎndànr duō kěài !dàn tā zìgěr zài zhèr wánr ,hǎoxiàng yǒudiǎnr gūdān 。wǒmen zài shēng ge háizi ,gěi tā zuò ge bàner ba !
My dear, look at our little baby, what a cute face! But he’s playing here by himself, and he seems a little lonely. Let’s have another baby to keep him company!
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我的鸡下蛋了。
wǒ de jī xiàdàn le 。
My chicken laid an egg.
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dàn
egg
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我喜欢吃皮蛋,但是我的朋友不喜欢吃皮蛋。
wǒ xǐhuan chī pídàn ,dànshì wǒ de péngyou bù xǐhuan chī pídàn 。
I like to eat thousand-year-old egg, but my friends don't like them.
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香港的葡式蛋塔很有名。
Xiānggǎng de Pú shì dàntǎ hěn yǒumíng 。
The Portuguese style egg tart from Hong Kong is very famous.
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我最喜欢吃巧克力蛋糕。
wǒ zuì xǐhuan chī qiǎokèlì dàngāo 。
I love to eat chocolate cake.
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老板,这碗蛋花汤太咸了。
lǎobǎn ,zhè wǎn dànhuātāng tài xián le 。
Boss, this bowl of egg drop soup is too salty.
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你是大坏蛋。
nǐ shì dà huàidàn 。
You're a very bad person.
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完蛋了,我快要迟到了。
wándàn le ,wǒ kuàiyào chídào le 。
I'm done. I am going to be late.
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那个王八蛋撞了我的车。
nàge wángbādàn zhuàng le wǒ de chē 。
That bastard hit my car.
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