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鸯

鴦
yāng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 鸳鸯) female mandarin duck

Examples

一对鸳鸯在湖上游。
Yí duì yuānyāng zài hú shàng yóu.
A pair of mandarin ducks were swimming on the lake.
人们用鸳鸯比喻恩爱的夫妻。
Rénmen yòng yuānyāng bǐyù ēn'ài de fūqī.
People use mandarin ducks to symbolize a loving couple.

Tips

culture
A bound character: it occurs only in 鸳鸯, where 鸳 is the male and 鸯 the female mandarin duck. The pair is a long-standing Chinese symbol of devoted lovers.

Components

radical
鸟 niǎo
bird
Bottom bird radical, the indexing component, marking 鸯 as a kind of waterfowl. Same family as 鸳 and 鸭.
phonetic
央 yāng
center
Top 央 supplies the sound — yāng with no tone shift. It contributes no meaning here; the same phonetic appears in 秧 and 殃.

Stroke Order

鸯 yāng