Illustration: At a home kitchen counter, a cook holds two halves of a freshly cracked hen's egg over a small glass bowl. The intact yolk rests in a pool of translucent white, with a final strand still descending from the shell. Several whole eggs sit in an open moulded carton beside the bowl.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

卵たまご

tamago

egg

玉子 is also common for eggs in cooking. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 卵たまごは嫌きらいです。

    I don’t care for eggs.

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  2. 卵たまごは硬かたくゆでてください。

    Boil the eggs hard.

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  3. この卵たまごは新あたらしいよ。

    This egg is fresh.

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Kanji in 卵

  • 卵egg; ovumOnランKunたまご

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