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卵
Mandarin · pinyin luǎn
Meanings
- egg; ovum; spawn
- (coll.) testicles
- (old) penis
- (expletive) fucking
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- 卵
- luǎn · egg; ovum; roe; spawn
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Mandarin tones
3 · luan3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
leon2 · leon5 · lo5
Cantonese word readings for 卵. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- egg; ovum; roe; spawn
- (entomology) fertilised egg
- (regional) testicles
- (regional) penis; male genitals; scrotum
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