鸳
Tap the pinyin to hear it
mandarin duck
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 鳥 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 鴛
- Common rank
- #3,338
- Unicode
- U+9E33
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 鸳
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 | |
| 鸳绮 | magnificent fabrics | |
| 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 夗 — compare how they read.