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Trad. 鴛
  • mandarin duck
Trad. 鴛綺
  • magnificent fabrics
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. 鴛鴦浴
  • taking a bath together as a 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

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