鸡蛋
jī dàn
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Traditional: 雞蛋
A hen's egg: the ordinary egg you buy, cook and eat. It is counted with 个: 三个鸡蛋 'three eggs'. The word is chicken (鸡) plus egg (蛋), and a duck's egg is 鸭蛋.
Trứng gà: loại trứng thường ngày vẫn mua về nấu ăn. Đếm bằng 个: 三个鸡蛋 (ba quả trứng gà). Thứ tự ngược với tiếng Việt: 鸡 (gà) đứng trước, 蛋 (trứng) đứng sau; trứng vịt là 鸭蛋.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 鸡/雞 = kê · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “鸡蛋” mean?
A hen's egg: the ordinary egg you buy, cook and eat. It is counted with 个: 三个鸡蛋 'three eggs'. The word is chicken (鸡) plus egg (蛋), and a duck's egg is 鸭蛋. Literally: chicken egg
Is “鸡蛋” formal or informal?
鸡蛋 is generally neutral.