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century egg

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A Chinese delicacy made by preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: preserved egg, hundred-year egg, thousand-year egg, thousand-year-old egg, millennium egg, pidan, songhuadan, pei daan

Antonyms: none provided

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Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Burmese: ဆေးဘဲဥ (hce:bhai:u.) — Chinese delicacy
  • Chinese Cantonese: 皮蛋 — Chinese delicacy
  • Chinese: 皮蛋 (zh-min-nan) — Chinese delicacy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 皮蛋 (pídàn) — Chinese delicacy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 松花蛋 (sōnghuādàn) — Chinese delicacy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 松花 (sōnghuā) — Chinese delicacy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 變蛋 /变蛋 (biàndàn) — Chinese delicacy
  • Dutch: duizendjarig ei — Chinese delicacy
  • Finnish: satavuotinen muna — Chinese delicacy
  • Finnish: tuhatvuotinen muna — Chinese delicacy
  • French: œuf de cent ans — Chinese delicacy
  • German: hundertjähriges Ei — Chinese delicacy
  • German: tausendjähriges Ei — Chinese delicacy
  • Indonesian: telur bitan — Chinese delicacy
  • Japanese: 皮蛋 (pītan) — Chinese delicacy
  • Korean: 피단 (pidan) — Chinese delicacy
  • Lao: ໄຂ່ຍ່ຽວມ້າ (kh wa mā) — Chinese delicacy
  • Macedonian: вековно јајце (vekovno jajce) — Chinese delicacy
  • Malay: telur padi — Chinese delicacy
  • Mongolian: зуун жилийн өндөг (zuun žiliin öndög) — Chinese delicacy
  • Portuguese: ovo centenário — Chinese delicacy
  • Russian: столе́тнее яйцо́ (stolétneje jajcó) — Chinese delicacy
  • Russian: тысячеле́тнее яйцо́ (tysjačelétneje jajcó) — Chinese delicacy
  • Russian: пида́нь (pidánʹ) — Chinese delicacy
  • Russian: сунхуада́нь (sunxuadánʹ) — Chinese delicacy
  • Spanish: huevo centenario — Chinese delicacy
  • Thai: ไข่เยี่ยวม้า (kài-yîao-máa) — Chinese delicacy
  • Turkish: yüzyıl yumurtası — Chinese delicacy
  • Uyghur: ئەسىرلىك تۇخۇم (esirlik tuxum) — Chinese delicacy
  • Uyghur: يۈز يىللىق تۇخۇم (yüz yilliq tuxum) — Chinese delicacy
  • Vietnamese: trứng bách thảo — Chinese delicacy