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Trad. 鴛鴦
- (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
- (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple
Trad. 鴛鴦鍋
- "mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
Trad. 野鴛鴦
- wild mandarin duck
- (derog.) illicit lovers
- unorthodox couple
Trad. 棒打鴛鴦
- (idiom) to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure); to forcibly break up a couple against their will
Trad. 鴛鴦戲水
- lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water
- fig. to make love
Trad. 鴛鴦蝴蝶
- Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)
- derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900
Trad. 鴛鴦蝴蝶派
- Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
