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彩蛋

cǎidàn

painted eggshell

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

painted eggshell

02

Easter egg

03

(media) Easter egg (hidden feature in software or a movie etc)

04

post-credits scene

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 彩蛋 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 彩蛋 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

复活节滚彩蛋活动每年复活节周一都会在白宫的草地上举行。fù huó jié gǔn cǎi dàn huó dòng měi nián fù huó jié zhōu yī dū huì zài bái gōng de cǎo dì shàng jǔ xíng。

The Easter Egg Roll is an annual event that is held on the lawn of the White House each Easter Monday.

她鼓励各家各户画一颗复活节彩蛋,贴在窗户上,让其他孩子在每天外出运动时能「找到」,以此来协助所有孩子。tā gǔ lì gè jiā gè hù huà yī kē fù huó jié cǎi dàn, tiē zài chuāng hù shàng, ràng qí tā hái zi zài měi tiān wài chū yùn dòng shí néng 「zhǎo dào」, yǐ cǐ lái xié zhù suǒ yǒu hái zi。

She encouraged families to help all children by drawing an Easter egg putting it in the window for other children to “find” while out on their daily exercises.

我不喜欢复活节彩蛋。wǒ bù xǐ huān fù huó jié cǎi dàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 彩蛋.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 彩蛋.

Directly before

  • 复活节彩蛋2
  • 滚彩蛋1

Directly after

  • 彩蛋活动1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 彩蛋

What does 彩蛋 mean in Chinese?

彩蛋 (cǎidàn) means painted eggshell.

How do you pronounce 彩蛋?

彩蛋 is pronounced cǎidàn.

Is 彩蛋 an HSK word?

彩蛋 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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