계란

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egg

계란 — egg

🥚 계란 = 鷄 chicken + 卵 egg: literally chicken-egg

A Sino-Korean compound: 계 (鷄) means chicken and 란 (卵) means egg, so the word spells out chicken egg. The native Korean synonym is 달걀, built the same way from 닭 (chicken) + 알 (egg).

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