"century egg" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: century eggs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} century egg (plural century eggs)
  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. Wikipedia link: century egg Categories (lifeform): Eggs Synonyms: preserved egg, hundred-year egg, thousand-year egg, thousand-year-old egg, millennium egg, pidan, songhuadan, pei daan Translations (Chinese delicacy): ဆေးဘဲဥ (hce:bhai:u.) (Burmese), 皮蛋 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 皮蛋 (alt: pei⁴ daan⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 皮蛋 (pídàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 松花蛋 (sōnghuādàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 松花 (sōnghuā) (Chinese Mandarin), 變蛋 (Chinese Mandarin), 变蛋 (biàndàn) [regional] (Chinese Mandarin), satavuotinen muna (Finnish), tuhatvuotinen muna (Finnish), œuf de cent ans [masculine] (French), hundertjähriges Ei [neuter] (German), tausendjähriges Ei (english: millennium egg) [neuter] (German), 皮蛋 (pītan) (alt: ピータン) (Japanese), 피단 (pidan) (Korean), вековно јајце (vekovno jajce) [neuter] (Macedonian), telur padi (Malay), зуун жилийн өндөг (zuun žiliin öndög) (Mongolian), ovo centenário [masculine] (Portuguese), столе́тнее яйцо́ (stolétneje jajcó) [neuter] (Russian), тысячеле́тнее яйцо́ (tysjačelétneje jajcó) (english: millennium egg) [neuter] (Russian), пида́нь (pidánʹ) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), сунхуада́нь (sunxuadánʹ) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), huevo centenario [masculine] (Spanish), ไข่เยี่ยวม้า (kài-yîao-máa) (Thai), ئەسىرلىك تۇخۇم (esirlik tuxum) (Uyghur), يۈز يىللىق تۇخۇم (yüz yilliq tuxum) (Uyghur), trứng bách thảo (Vietnamese)

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      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "esirlik tuxum",
      "sense": "Chinese delicacy",
      "word": "ئەسىرلىك تۇخۇم"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "yüz yilliq tuxum",
      "sense": "Chinese delicacy",
      "word": "يۈز يىللىق تۇخۇم"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Chinese delicacy",
      "word": "trứng bách thảo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "century egg"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": phî-tàn vs. zh-min-nan",
  "path": [
    "century egg"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "century egg",
  "trace": ""
}

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