鴦
鴦
yāng
ㄧㄤ
- female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Words with 鴦鴦
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China, Zoology, Avian
1. mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Figurative
2. affectionate couple
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3. happily married couple
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1. wild mandarin duck
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Derogatory
2. illicit lovers
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3. unorthodox couple
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1. "mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
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1. taking a bath together as a couple
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1. lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water
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2. fig. to make love
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Idiom, Verb
1. to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure)
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Verb
2. to forcibly break up a couple against their will
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1. Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)
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2. derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900
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1. Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists