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松花蛋
sōng​huā​dàn

century egg

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
松花蛋 sōng​huā​dàn
century egg
preserved egg made by curing a duck or chicken egg in a mixture of salt, lime, clay, and wood ash; named for the pine-needle-like patterns that appear on the egg white.

Frequency

Written text
0.268 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 皮蛋 pí​dàn
  • 变蛋 biàn​dàn
  • 松花 sōng​huā

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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