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鸯
鴦
yāng
1.
mandarin duck
Uncommon • Top 27%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (5)
鸳鸯
yuānyāng
(Chinese bird species) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
鸳鸯锅
yuānyangguō
"Mandarin Ducks" pot
鸳鸯戏水
yuānyāngxìshuǐ
lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water
鸳鸯蝴蝶
yuānyanghúdié
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)
鸳鸯蝴蝶派
yuānyanghúdiépài
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- Character Frequency Rank
- 3,974
- Word Frequency Rank
- 22,477 of 84,292