蛋 - Mandarin word #5121

蛋

dàn

Traditional: 蛋

#5121 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

egg; a slang suffix in insults

Stroke order

蛋

餐cān。

I had an egg for breakfast.

，！

Stop it, you idiot!

骂mà，。

He called him a bastard, absolutely furious.

餐cān。

I had two eggs for breakfast.

鲜xiān。

This egg is very fresh.

蛋 (dàn) literally means egg but turns up as a slang suffix in insults like 笨蛋 (bèn dàn) "idiot" and 混蛋 (hún dàn) "bastard".

笨蛋

fool, idiot

混蛋

bastard, scoundrel (vulgar insult)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 蛋.

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This word is part of lesson 103.