Egg
noun
The kanji and the word are exactly the same. That means they share meanings as well.
The reading is the same as what you learned with the kanji.
私は卵を毎朝食べています。
I eat eggs every morning.
今日は卵をゆでてサラダに入れました。
Today, I boiled eggs and put them in a salad.
でも、まだ卵を割るのが苦手です。
But I'm still bad at cracking eggs.
「卵がかえる前にひなを数えるな」ということわざは、日本語では「とらぬタヌキの皮算用をするな」です。
The proverb "Don't count your chickens before they hatch" is "Don't count your pelts before you've caught the tanuki" in Japanese.