| | (chicken) egg / hen's egg / CL: 個｜个, 打 | HSK 1 |
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| | egg / CL: 個｜个, 打 / oval-shaped thing | HSK 2 |
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| | classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個｜个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | egg; ovum; spawn / (coll.) testicles / (old) penis / (expletive) fucking | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc) / case; casing; housing (of a machine or device) | |
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| | poached egg / egg fried on both sides | |
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| | tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea) | |
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| | peeled boiled egg, stewed in soy sauce and other flavorings | |
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| | to lay eggs | |
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| | egg yolk | |
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| | egg pancake (thin pancake rolled up with omelet inside, popular in Taiwan as a breakfast dish) | |
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| | century egg; preserved egg | |
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| | shrimp roe; shrimp eggs | |
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| | gold dust / salted egg yolk sauce | |
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| | still-born chick (in unhatched egg) / variant of 殰｜㱩 | |
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| | painted eggshell / Easter egg / (media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc) / post-credits scene | |
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| | ocarina / wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes | |
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| | scrambled eggs | |
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| | egg roll | |
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| | egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables) | |
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| | bad egg / scoundrel / bastard | |
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| | egg roll / spring roll | |
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| | egg products / egg-based products | |
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| | to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg) | |
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| | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- | |
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| | to penetrate; to break into (a market, social group etc); to infiltrate (enemy ranks etc) / to banish to; to relegate to / to insert; to inject / to crack (an egg) into (a bowl etc) | |
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| | egg beater | |
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| | oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth | |
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| | soft yolk (of a cooked egg) | |
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| | lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible / to invite disaster by overreaching oneself | |
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| | to wave flags and shout battle cries (idiom); to egg sb on / to give support to | |
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| | to look for bones in an egg / to find fault / to nitpick (idiom) | |
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| | onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 温玉 "ontama", which is an abbr. for 温泉玉子 "onsen tamago") | |
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| | salted duck egg | |
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| | lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs | |
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| | red-dyed egg, traditionally given to friends and relatives one month after the birth of one's child | |
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| | lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs | |
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| | the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken / a dead loss (idiom) | |
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| | egg yolk | |
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| | red-painted eggs, traditional celebratory gift on third day after birth of new baby | |
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| | lit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom) / fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself / to overrate one's abilities | |
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| | lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed | |
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| | fish eggs / roe / caviar | |
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| | capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk | |
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| | silkworm eggs | |
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| | (coll.) hen's egg | |
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| | (dialect) (of birds) to lay eggs / (archaic) to reproduce; to bear offspring | |
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| | lecithin (phospholipid found in egg yolk) | |
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| | silkworm eggs | |
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| | infertile egg | |
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| | ant eggs | |
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| | eggs of mantis | |
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| | louse egg / nit | |
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| | a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs | |
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| | damage egg so it does not hatch | |
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| | century egg; preserved egg | |
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| | oval / egg-shaped (leaves in botany) | |
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| | (coll.) egg white | |
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| | to overreach oneself / to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face | |
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| | paper on which silkworm lays its eggs | |
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| | to lay eggs | |
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| | precarious as pile of eggs (idiom); ready to fall and break at any moment / in a dangerous state | |
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| | to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back | |
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| | ootheca, i.e. eggs in their capsule, of a praying mantis (used in TCM) / cuttlebone (abbr. for 海螵蛸 [hai3 piao1 xiao1]) | |
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| | egg tart (colloquial pr. [dan4ta3]) | |
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| | egg tart | |
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| | lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact / no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom) | |
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| | (coll.) duck's egg | |
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| | (dialect) scrambled eggs | |
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| | half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled | |
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| | lit. the matter has become a pile of eggs (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture | |
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| | pork and scrambled eggs | |
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| | a poached egg | |
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| | fried egg | |
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| | boiled egg | |
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| | to beat; to whisk; to whip (eggs, cream etc) | |
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| | boiled egg / soft-boiled egg | |
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| | frozen eggs | |
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| | iron egg, a Taiwanese snack made by stewing eggs in soy sauce and air-drying them each day for a week | |
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| | fried egg; sunny-side-up egg | |
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| | to put on theatrical makeup / (neologism c. 2014) to debunk sb's claim; to put egg on sb's face | |
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| | Portuguese-style egg tart (pastel de nata) | |
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| | bird eggs | |
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| | to donate eggs (from one's ovaries) | |
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| | bad element; bad egg; troublemaker | |
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| | incubator (for eggs or startup businesses) | |
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| | oyakodon, a donburi topped with chicken and egg (orthographic borrowing from Japanese) | |
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| | (dialect) (of birds) to lay eggs | |
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| | turtle's egg (highly offensive when directed at sb) | |
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| | pasta (abbr. for 意大利麵｜意大利面) / (Tw) yi mein, a variety of Cantonese egg noodle | |
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| | onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water) | |
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| | chawanmushi, Japanese savory egg custard dish that is steamed and served in a small bowl | |
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| | oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth | |
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| | yi mein (or yee mee or yee-fu noodles etc), a variety of Cantonese egg noodle | |
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| | thoroughly cooked; (of steak) well done; (of eggs) hard-boiled | |
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| | hard-boiled egg | |
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| | soft-boiled egg | |
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| | ootype (site of egg composition in flatworm biology) | |
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| | turtle's egg (highly offensive when directed at sb) | |
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| | to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back | |
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