蠶卵

Chinese

		silkworm	ovum
trad. (蠶卵)		蠶	卵
simp. (蚕卵)		蚕	卵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cánluǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˊ ㄌㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam⁴ leon^5-2
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhân-nūi / chhâm-nn̄g

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cánluǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˊ ㄌㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cánluǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan²-luan³
    • Yale: tsán-lwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsarnloan
    • Palladius: цаньлуань (canʹluanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän³⁵ lu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam⁴ leon^5-2
    • Yale: chàahm léun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam⁴ loen^5-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam⁴ lên^5-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm²¹ lɵn¹³⁻³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhân-nūi
    • Tâi-lô: tshân-nuī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhannui
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰan¹³⁻²² nuĩ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhâm-nn̄g
    • Tâi-lô: tshâm-nn̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhamnng
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰam²⁴⁻¹¹ nŋ̍³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰam²³⁻³³ nŋ̍³³/

Noun

蠶卵

1. silkworm egg

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蠶子 (“silkworm egg”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蠶子
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	蠶子兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	蠶子兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	蠶兒蛋, 蠶子兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	蠶子蛋
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蠶春
Gan	Nanchang	蠶子
	Lichuan	蠶子
Jin	Taiyuan	蠶子
	Pingyao	蠶子子
	Xinzhou	蠶兒子兒
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蠶繭卵
Southern Min	Xiamen	娘仔卵
	Quanzhou	娘仔卵
	Zhangzhou	蠶卵
Wu	Suzhou	蠶種
	Danyang	蠶子
	Hangzhou	蠶種
	Wenzhou	蠶種
	Jinhua	蠶子
Xiang	Changsha	蠶子子