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


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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