炒蛋
chǎo dàn
Pinyin

Definition

炒蛋
 - 
chǎo dàn
  1. scrambled eggs

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

彩蛋
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
炒
chǎo
  1. 1 to sauté
  2. 2 to stir-fry
  3. 3 to speculate
  4. 4 to hype
  5. 5 to fire (sb)
蛋
Dàn
  1. 1 variant of 蜑[Dàn]
蛋糕
dàn gāo
  1. 1 cake
  2. 2 CL:塊|块[kuài],個|个[gè]
鸡蛋
jī dàn
  1. 1 (chicken) egg
  2. 2 hen's egg
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè],打[dá]
下蛋
xià dàn
  1. 1 to lay eggs
坏蛋
huài dàn
  1. 1 bad egg
  2. 2 scoundrel
  3. 3 bastard
完蛋
wán dàn
  1. 1 (coll.) to be done for
捣蛋
dǎo dàn
  1. 1 to cause trouble
  2. 2 to stir up trouble
操蛋
cào dàn
  1. 1 lousy
  2. 2 rotten
混蛋
hún dàn
  1. 1 scoundrel
  2. 2 bastard
  3. 3 hoodlum
  4. 4 wretch
滚蛋
gǔn dàn
  1. 1 get out of here!
  2. 2 beat it!
炒作
chǎo zuò
  1. 1 to hype
  2. 2 to promote (in the media)
炒股
chǎo gǔ
  1. 1 (coll.) to speculate in stocks
炒菜
chǎo cài
  1. 1 to stir-fry
  2. 2 to do the cooking
  3. 3 stir-fried dish
炒蛋
chǎo dàn
  1. 1 scrambled eggs
炒锅
chǎo guō
  1. 1 wok
  2. 2 frying pan
炒饭
chǎo fàn
  1. 1 fried rice
  2. 2 (slang) (Tw) to have sex
炒面
chǎo miàn
  1. 1 stir-fried noodles
  2. 2 "chow mein"
煎蛋
jiān dàn
  1. 1 fried egg

Idioms (7)

生炒热卖
shēng chǎo rè mài
  1. 1 to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
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
鸟不生蛋，狗不拉屎
niǎo bù shēng dàn , gǒu bù lā shǐ
  1. 1 lit. (a place where) birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't defecate (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. god-forsaken
  3. 3 remote and desolate

Sample Sentences

我要一个炒蛋，一个水煮蛋。
wǒ yào yī ge chǎo dàn ，yī ge shuǐzhǔ dàn 。
I want one scrambled egg, one boiled egg.
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我做得很好。我的拿手菜是番茄炒蛋。
wǒ zuò de hěn hǎo 。wǒ de náshǒu cài shì fānqié chǎodàn 。
I cook very well. My specialty is tomatoes with fried eggs.
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