boiled egg
A common food item; refers to an egg boiled in its shell, often served as a snack, in bento, or as a ramen topping.
I ate a boiled egg for breakfast.
ラーメンにゆで卵をトッピングした。
I topped the ramen with a boiled egg.
Raw egg, often used in dishes like 卵かけご飯.
Fried egg, sunny-side up.
Rolled omelette, a different cooked egg dish.
Most common spelling; uses kana for ゆで and kanji for 卵.
Uses the kanji 茹でる for boiling; less common but still seen.
Variant with 玉子, which is often used for eggs as food.
Full kanji spelling; rare and somewhat formal.
Compound of 茹で (yude, 'boiling') + 卵 (tamago, 'egg'). The verb 茹でる (yuderu) means 'to boil'.