계란

Korean

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 鷄卵, from 鷄 (“chicken”) + 卵 (“egg”)

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [kje̞ɾa̠n] ~ [ke̞ɾa̠n]
  • Phonetic hangul: [계란/게란]
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gyeran
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gyelan
McCune–Reischauer?kyeran
Yale Romanization?kyeylan

South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 계란의 / 계란에 / 계란까지

Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch only on the first syllable, and lowers the pitch of subsequent suffixes.

Noun

계란 • (gyeran) (hanja 鷄卵)

  1. chicken egg

Synonyms

Derived terms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.