鸯 — Chinese character
鸯
yāng
female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
- Pinyin
- yāng
- Radical
- 196 ⿃ (Bird)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 央 鸟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 鸟; sound component 央
- Traditional
- 鴦
Common words with 鸯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸳鸯 (鴛鴦) | yuān yāng | (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata); (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple |
| 鸳鸯浴 (鴛鴦浴) | yuān yāng yù | taking a bath together as a couple |
| 鸳鸯蝴蝶 (鴛鴦蝴蝶) | yuān yang hú dié | Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds); derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900 |
| 鸳鸯戏水 (鴛鴦戲水) | yuān yāng xì shuǐ | lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water; fig. to make love |
| 棒打鸳鸯 (棒打鴛鴦) | bàng dǎ yuān yāng | (idiom) to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure); to forcibly break up a couple against their will |
| 鸳鸯锅 (鴛鴦鍋) | yuān yang guō | "mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other) |
| 野鸳鸯 (野鴛鴦) | yě yuān yāng | wild mandarin duck; (derog.) illicit lovers |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.