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Old Wade-Giles romanization used only in Taiwan.
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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


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yāng
    yang1
yang
 yō
mandarin duck
Hen of mandarin duck, symbolizing conjugal fidelity; translit. aṅg.

鴛鴦


鸳鸯

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yuān yāng
    yuan1 yang1
yüan yang
 oshidori; enou; oshi; oshidori / oshidori; eno; oshi; oshidori
    おしどり; えんおう; おし; オシドリ
(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata); (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple
(kana only) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

鴦伽


鸯伽

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yāng qié
    yang1 qie2
yang ch`ieh
    yang chieh
鴦掘多羅 ? Aṅga, described as a country north of Magadha.

野鴛鴦


野鸳鸯

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yě yuān yāng
    ye3 yuan1 yang1
yeh yüan yang
wild mandarin duck; (derog.) illicit lovers; unorthodox couple

鴛鴦浴


鸳鸯浴

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yuān yāng yù
    yuan1 yang1 yu4
yüan yang yü
taking a bath together as a couple

鴛鴦鍋


鸳鸯锅

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yuān yang guō
    yuan1 yang5 guo1
yüan yang kuo
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)

鴦倶舍


鸯倶舍

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yāng jù shě
    yang1 ju4 she3
yang chü she
aṅgūṣa, an arrow, a barbed weapon.

鴛鴦戲水


鸳鸯戏水

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yuān yāng xì shuǐ
    yuan1 yang1 xi4 shui3
yüan yang hsi shui
lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water; fig. to make love

鴛鴦蝴蝶


鸳鸯蝴蝶

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yuān yang hú dié
    yuan1 yang5 hu2 die2
yüan yang hu tieh
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds); derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900

鴦伽社哆


鸯伽社哆

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yāng qié shè chǐ
    yang1 qie2 she4 chi3
yang ch`ieh she ch`ih
    yang chieh she chih
aṅgajāta, 'produced from or on the body,' a son, but intp. as the membrum virile.

鴦哦囉迦


鸯哦囉迦

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yān gé luō jiā
    yan1 ge2 luo1 jia1
yen ko lo chia
Aṅgāraka, charcoal; intp. fire star, the planet Mars.

鴦崛摩羅


鸯崛摩罗

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yāng jué mó luó
    yang1 jue2 mo2 luo2
yang chüeh mo lo
(鴦崛利摩羅) Aṅgulimālya, chaplet of finger-bones; the Śivaitic sect that wore such chaplets; also 鴦堀摩羅; 鴦掘摩羅; 鴦窶利摩羅 v. 央. One converted by the Buddha is known by this name.

鴦輸伐摩


鸯输伐摩

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yāng shū fá mó
    yang1 shu1 fa2 mo2
yang shu fa mo
Aṃśuvarman, a king of ancient Nepal, descendant of the Licchavis, author of the 聲明論.

鴛鴦蝴蝶派


鸳鸯蝴蝶派

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yuān yang hú dié pài
    yuan1 yang5 hu2 die2 pai4
yüan yang hu tieh p`ai
    yüan yang hu tieh pai
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 14 results for "鸯" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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