鸳鸯 (鴛鴦) yuānyāng
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yuānyāng
noun
mandarin ducks
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Zoology , Concept: Bird 鸟
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鴛鴦'; Guoyu '鴛鴦' 1) -
yuānyāng
noun
an affectionate couple
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: By analogy with Mandarin ducks (CC-CEDICT '鴛鴦'; Guoyu '鴛鴦' 2) -
yuānyāng
noun
a pair of objects
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '鴛鴦' 3)
Contained in
- 野鸳鸯(野鴛鴦) wild mandarin duck; illicit lovers; unorthodox couple
- 鸳鸯锅(鴛鴦鍋) mandarin ducks pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
- 鸳鸯浴(鴛鴦浴) taking a bath together as a couple
- 鸳鸯蝴蝶派(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
- 鸳鸯蝴蝶(鴛鴦蝴蝶) Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)
- 鸳鸯戏水(鴛鴦戲水) mandarin ducks playing in the water; to make love
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 第二回 Chapter 40 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 63
- 第二回 Chapter 46 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 48
- 第二回 Chapter 108 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 30
- 第二回 Chapter 72 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 27
- 第二回 Chapter 71 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 26
- 第二回 Chapter 110 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 22
- 第二回 Chapter 111 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 21
- 第二回 Chapter 116 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 47 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 13
- 第二回 Chapter 38 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 12
Collocations
- 鸳鸯泺 (鴛鴦濼) 駐蹕鴛鴦濼 — History of Liao 遼史, 卷十四 本紀第十四: 聖宗五 Volume 14 Annals 14: Shengzong 5 — count: 52
- 鸳鸯在 (鴛鴦在) 鴛鴦在梁 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧鴛鴦 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Yuan Yang — count: 7
- 在鸳鸯 (在鴛鴦) 知遼主在鴛鴦濼 — History of Jin 金史, 卷七十四 列傳第十二: 宗翰本名粘罕 子:斜哥 宗望本名斡離不 子:齊 京 文 Volume 74 Biographies 12: Zong Han formerly named Zhanhan, son: Xiege, Zong Wang formerly named Wo Libu, sons: Qi, Jing, Wen — count: 7
- 鸳鸯文 (鴛鴦文) 金繡鴛鴦文 — History of Ming 明史, 卷六十六 志第四十二 輿服二 Volume 66 Treatises 42: Carriages and Clothing 2 — count: 7
- 幸鸳鸯 (幸鴛鴦) 幸鴛鴦濼 — History of Liao 遼史, 卷二十二 本紀第二十二: 道宗二 Volume 22 Annals 22: Daozong 2 — count: 5
- 鸳鸯等 (鴛鴦等) 鳳姐兒知道鴛鴦等在後面 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 29 — count: 5
- 云霞鸳鸯 (雲霞鴛鴦) 霞帔上施繡雲霞鴛鴦文 — History of Ming 明史, 卷六十七 志第四十三 輿服三 Volume 67 Treatises 43: Carriages and Clothing 3 — count: 5
- 双鸳鸯 (雙鴛鴦) 化為雙鴛鴦 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans — count: 4
- 绣鸳鸯 (繡鴛鴦) 金繡鴛鴦文 — History of Ming 明史, 卷六十六 志第四十二 輿服二 Volume 66 Treatises 42: Carriages and Clothing 2 — count: 3
- 鸳鸯楼上 (鴛鴦樓上) 和張團練都在張都監家裏後堂鴛鴦樓上喫酒 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十回 Chapter 30 — count: 3