"(duck)" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yuān yāng (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple / happily married couple
 yā zi duck / male prostitute (slang)
 kǎo yā roast duck
 yě yā wild duck / mallard (Anas platyrhyncha)
 Běi jīng kǎo yā Peking Duck
 bǎn yā pressed (dried) salted duck
 xián yā dàn salted duck egg
 yā zhǎng duck feet (claws)
 tián yā to force-feed ducks / (cooking) stuffed duck
 yě yuān yāng wild mandarin duck / (derog.) illicit lovers / unorthodox couple
 shǎn to dodge / to duck out of the way / to beat it / shaken (by a fall) / to sprain / to pull a muscle / lightning / spark / a flash / to flash (across one's mind) / to leave behind / (Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine
 yā duck / CL:隻|只[zhi1] / (slang) male prostitute
 yuān mandarin duck
 yāng mandarin duck
 wù duck
 xī a kind of water bird resembling a duck
 wù tame duck
 gǎn yā zi shàng jià lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
 kè hú lèi wù to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
 Táng Lǎo yā Donald Duck
 zhǔ shú de yā zi fēi le the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
 pī wild duck
 xī chì a kind of water bird resembling a mandarin duck
 jiā yā domestic duck
绿 jiā yā lu:4 tóu yā mallard / duck (Anas platyrhyncha)
 jī tóng yā jiǎng lit. chicken speaking with duck / fig. talking without communicating / people not understanding each other
 yā zi tāng Duck soup
 fèng tóu qián yā (bird species of China) tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
 bái tóu yìng wěi yā (bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
 bān zuǐ yā (bird species of China) eastern spot-billed duck (Anas zonorhyncha)
 lì shù yā (bird species of China) lesser whistling duck (Dendrocygna javanica)
 liú yā (bird species of China) knob-billed duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos)
 lái sāng yā Laysan duck
  white-faced whistling duck
  fulvous whistling duck
 dài bì to await death / to be a sitting duck
 chūn jiāng shuǐ nuǎn yā xiān zhī lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom) / fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows
 xī chì a kind of waterbird resembling a mandarin duck
 chǒu yā (bird species of China) harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
 Yìn miǎn bān zuǐ yā (bird species of China) Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
 zōng jǐng yā (bird species of China) Philippine duck (Anas luzonica)
 luó wén yā (bird species of China) falcated duck (Anas falcata)
 cháng wěi yā (bird species of China) long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis)
 máo yā dàn balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
 yā zǐ dàn balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
 yī xué jiù huì to pick up (a skill) in a very short time / to take to sth like a duck to water
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