鸯
Tap the pinyin to hear it
used in 鴛鴦|鸳鸯[yuan1 yang1]
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 鳥 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 鴦
- Common rank
- #3,483
- Unicode
- U+9E2F
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 鸯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸳鸯戏水 | lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water; fig. to make love | |
| 棒打鸳鸯 | (idiom) to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure); to forcibly brea… | |
| 野鸳鸯 | wild mandarin duck; (derog.) illicit lovers; unorthodox couple | |
| 鸳鸯蝴蝶派 | Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as … | |
| 鸳鸯锅 | "mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup… | |
| 鸳鸯浴 | taking a bath together as a couple | |
| 鸳鸯蝴蝶 | Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds); derogatory reference to populist and roman… | |
| 鸳鸯 | (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata); (fig.) affectionate couple; happ… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 央 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 央 sound part | central; to beg; to run out | |
| 英 | petal, flower, leaf; brave, heroic; English | |
| 映 | to project; to reflect; to shine | |
| 秧 | shoots, sprouts; young rice plants | |
| 盎 | pot, cup, bowl; abundant | |
| 殃 | misfortune, disaster, calamity | |
| 鞅 | the strap over a horse's neck | |
| 泱 | great, expansive; agitated | |
| 怏 | discontented, dispirited, sad |