How to say “Egg” in Cantonese
gai1雞daan2蛋
gai1 daan2 · Egg
A chicken egg. In everyday speech 蛋 is also used on its own, as in 煎蛋 for fried egg.
The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.