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煮鸡蛋, photo 1 of 3
煮鸡蛋, photo 2 of 3
煮鸡蛋, photo 3 of 3
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Boiled Egg - Crossection
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Ramesh NG
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CC BY-SA 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Eggs, hard-boiled - Massachusetts
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Daderot
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CC0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Hard boiled egg 2
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3steph14
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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煮鸡蛋

煮雞蛋
zhǔjīdàn
Also on menus as 水煮蛋, 水煮鸡蛋, 白煮蛋
noun Not spicy

Meanings

  1. 1 boiled egg
  2. 2 to boil eggs

About the dish

家常菜 Home-style · 小吃 Snack

A whole egg boiled in its shell until the yolk is firm or still soft, served plain for you to peel. A common breakfast item.

Usually contains egg

Examples

HSK 5
我早餐通常吃一个煮鸡蛋。
Wǒ zǎocān tōngcháng chī yí ge zhǔjīdàn.
I usually eat a boiled egg for breakfast.
HSK 7-9
煮鸡蛋的时候加点盐，壳更好剥。
Zhǔjīdàn de shíhou jiādiǎn yán, ké gèng hǎo bāo.
Add a little salt when boiling eggs - the shell peels off more easily.

Tips

grammar
煮鸡蛋 reads as both noun (‘a boiled egg’) and verb-object (‘to boil eggs / boiling eggs’). 一个煮鸡蛋 is the noun reading; 我在煮鸡蛋 is verb + object.

Stroke Order

煮 zhǔ
鸡 jī
蛋 dàn