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- egg balancing (activity popular in China at Lichun 立春[Li4 chun1] etc)
- to stand an egg on its broad end
Trad. 摜蛋
- guandan (a popular poker game that originated in Jiangsu province, China)
Trad. 鐵蛋
- iron egg, a Taiwanese snack made by stewing eggs in soy sauce and air-drying them each day for a week
- red-painted eggs, traditional celebratory gift on third day after birth of new baby
- painted eggshell
- Easter egg
- (media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc)
- post-credits scene
Trad. 蛋餅
- egg pancake (thin pancake rolled up with omelet inside, popular in Taiwan as a breakfast dish)
Trad. 紅蛋
- red-dyed egg, traditionally given to friends and relatives one month after the birth of one's child
Trad. 吃鴨蛋
- (fig.) to score 0 (on a test, in competition etc)
Trad. 鴨仔蛋
- balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
Trad. 溫泉蛋
- onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water)
Trad. 茶葉蛋
- tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)
Trad. 蛋包飯
- omurice, Japanese dish consisting of an omelet wrapped around fried rice and often topped with ketchup
Trad. 滾彩蛋
- egg rolling (rolling of decorated, hard-boiled eggs down hillsides by children at Easter)
Trad. 窮光蛋
- poor wretch
- pauper
- destitute man
- poverty-stricken peasant
- penniless good-for-nothing
- impecunious vagabond
Trad. 蛋炒飯
- egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)
Trad. 蛋花湯
- clear soup containing beaten egg and green leafy vegetable
- eggdrop soup
Trad. 毛鴨蛋
- balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
Trad. 雞飛蛋打
- the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken
- a dead loss (idiom)
- custom-designed cake (e.g. cake shaped like a guitar, camera or cartoon character)
Trad. 薩赫蛋糕
- Sachertorte, Viennese chocolate cake
Trad. 倒霉蛋兒
- erhua variant of 倒霉蛋[dao3 mei2 dan4]
Trad. 雞蛋碰石頭
- lit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom)
- fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself
- to overrate one's abilities
- alpha globulin
- alpha fetoprotein (AFP)
Trad. 雞蛋裡挑骨頭
- to look for bones in an egg
- to find fault
- to nitpick (idiom)
Trad. 纖毛動力蛋白
- ciliary dynein protein
Trad. 高鐵血紅蛋白
- methemoglobin
Trad. 蒼蠅不叮無縫蛋
- lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom)
- fig. no smoke without a fire
Trad. 鳥不拉屎，雞不生蛋
- lit. (a place where) birds don't defecate and hens don't lay eggs (idiom)
- fig. god-forsaken
- remote and desolate
Trad. 鳥不生蛋，狗不拉屎
- lit. (a place where) birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't defecate (idiom)
- fig. god-forsaken
- remote and desolate
Trad. 步子太大，容易扯著蛋
- if you take too big a stride, you could easily rip your balls (catchphrase) (line spoken by actor 葛優|葛优[Ge3 You1] in the 2010 action comedy movie 讓子彈飛|让子弹飞[Rang4 Zi3 dan4 Fei1])
- (fig.) take things one step at a time