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Muscovy duck
roast duck
HSK 5
duck down
duck (CL:隻|只) / (slang) male prostitute
HSK 5
to pick up (a skill) in a very short time; to take to sth like a duck to water
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闪* | 闪* | *闪
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
HSK 4
(bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
Peking Duck
Donald Duck
pressed (dried) salted duck
domestic duck
(bird species of China) harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
to await death / to be a sitting duck
lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
lit. chicken speaking with duck / fig. talking without communicating / people not understanding each other
to force-feed ducks / (cooking) stuffed duck
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
balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
duck foot
wild duck / mallard (Anas platyrhyncha)
salted duck egg
(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鸭* | 鸭* | *鸭
duck (CL:隻|只) / (slang) male prostitute
hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur)
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
duck's blood and beef tripe in spicy soup
balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
a kind of waterbird resembling a mandarin duck
(coll.) duck's egg
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
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鹜* | 鹜* | *鹜
duck
(bird species of China) long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis)
wild mandarin duck / (derog.) illicit lovers / unorthodox couple
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鸳* | 鸳* | *鸳
mandarin duck
(bird species of China) tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
mallard / duck (Anas platyrhyncha)
(bird species of China) eastern spot-billed duck (Anas zonorhyncha)
(bird species of China) marbled teal; marbled duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris)
(bird species of China) Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
siu mei; Cantonese-style barbecue (roasted meats, such as pork, duck or chicken, seasoned and cooked to a crispy, flavorful finish)
(literary) mythical bird similar to a phoenix / (archaic) waterbird similar to a large duck
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鴄* | 鴄* | *鴄
wild duck
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鹥* | 鹥* | *鹥
wigeon (Anas penelope, a Eurasian duck) / seagull (arch.)
(bird species of China) knob-billed duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos)
(bird species of China) lesser whistling duck (Dendrocygna javanica)
(bird species of China) falcated duck (Mareca falcata)
(bird species of China) Philippine duck (Anas luzonica)


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