Kanji1 / 7
卵 kanji
egg, ovum, spawn, roe
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ラン
Kun readings
たまご
Words with 卵
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —孵卵incubation; hatching
- —抱卵incubation
- —卵膜egg membrane
- —虫卵insect egg; parasite egg
- —採卵egg collection (from hens, fish, etc.); oocyte collection
- —托卵brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)
- —卵粉dried egg powder
- —卵割cleavage (in embryology); segmentation
- —全卵whole egg; egg white and egg yolk
- —卵塊egg sack (frog, spider, etc.); egg mass
- —卵液egg mixture; egg wash
- —液卵liquid egg; liquified eggs; liquefied eggs; cracked raw eggs (usu. with yolks still intact)
- —魚卵fish eggs; roe; hard roe
- —累卵dangerous situation; perilous position; pile of eggs
- —卵菌oomycete; class oomycota; water mold
- —検卵egg candling; egg testing
- —卵用(reared) for eggs
- —放卵releasing eggs (esp. of fish, amphibians, etc.); spawning
- —卵鞘ootheca; egg case
- —卵麺egg noodles