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"Peking Duck" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
北京烤鸭 北京烤鴨 běi jīng kǎo yā Peking Duck
Chinese Pinyin Translation
鸭子 鴨子 yā zi duck / male prostitute (slang) syn
武功 wǔ gōng martial art / military accomplishments / (Peking opera) martial arts feats syn
北大 běi dà Peking University (abbr. for 北京大學|北京大学)
野鸭 野鴨 yě yā wild duck / mallard (Anas platyrhyncha) syn
烤鸭 烤鴨 kǎo yā roast duck
垫板 diàn pàn duck-board
咸鸭蛋 鹹鴨蛋 xián yā dàn salted duck egg
北京大学 北京大學 běi jīng dà xué Peking University
鸳鸯 鴛鴦 yuān yāng (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple / happily married couple syn
北京人 běi jīng rén Beijing resident / Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4], Beijing
蔡元培 cài yuán péi Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), educationist and politician, president of Peking University 1917-27
板鸭 板鴨 bǎn yā pressed (dried) salted duck
闪 閃 shǎn 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 syn
鸭 鴨 yā duck (CL:隻|只[zhi1]) / (slang) male prostitute syn
填鸭 tián yā to force-feed ducks / (cooking) stuffed duck
鹜 鶩 wù duck syn
鸭掌 鴨掌 yā zhǎng duck feet (claws)
北京猿人 běi jīng yuán rén Peking ape-man / Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4] in 1921
毛血旺 máo xuè wàng duck's blood and beef tripe in spicy soup
野鸳鸯 野鴛鴦 yě yuān yāng wild mandarin duck / (derog.) illicit lovers / unorthodox couple
二黄 二黃 èr huáng one of the two chief types of music in Chinese opera / Peking opera / also written 二簧[er4 huang2] / see also 西皮[xi1 pi2] syn
鸳 鴛 yuān mandarin duck
唐老鸭 唐老鴨 táng lǎo yā Donald Duck
鸂 xī a kind of water bird resembling a duck
鶩 wù tame duck
鴢 yòu (duck)
赶鸭子上架 趕鴨子上架 gǎn yā zi shàng jià lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
刻鹄类鹜 刻鵠類鶩 kè hú lèi wù 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
中关村 中關村 zhōng guān cūn Zhongguancun neighborhood of Beijing, containing Peking University, famous for electronics shops and bookstores
丁韪良 丁韙良 dīng wěi liáng William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Peking University
京报 京報 jīng bào Peking Gazette (official government bulletin)
曹靖华 曹靖華 cáo jìng huá Cao Jinghua (1897-1987), translator from Russian, professor of Peking University and essayist
东交民巷 東交民巷 dōng jiāo mín xiàng East Jiaomin Lane, a street in central Beijing and its surrounding district, formerly known as the Peking Legation Quarter, where foreign diplomatic missions were located during the period 1861-1959
辅仁大学 輔仁大學 fǔ rén dà xué Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking (from 1925), forerunner of Beijing Normal University 北京師範大學|北京师范大学 / Fu Jen Catholic University in New Taipei City, Taiwan
国立西南联合大学 國立西南聯合大學 guó lì xī nán lián hé dà xué National Southwest Combined University (Peking, Tsinghua and Nankai Universities in exile in Kunming 1937-1945)
鴄 pī wild duck
鸂鶒 xī chì a kind of water bird resembling a mandarin duck
家鸭 家鴨 jiā yā domestic duck syn
家鸭绿头鸭 家鴨綠頭鴨 jiā yā lǜ tóu yā mallard / duck (Anas platyrhyncha)
棘鼻青岛龙 棘鼻青島龍 jí bí qīng dǎo lóng Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
鸡同鸭讲 雞同鴨講 jī tóng yā jiǎng lit. chicken speaking with duck / fig. talking without communicating / people not understanding each other
鸭嘴龙 鴨嘴龍 yā zuǐ lóng hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur)
鸭子汤 鴨子湯 yā zi tāng Duck soup
鹥 鷖 yī wigeon (Anas penelope, a Eurasian duck) / seagull (arch.)
凤头潜鸭 鳳頭潛鴨 fèng tóu qián yā (bird species of China) tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
白头硬尾鸭 白頭硬尾鴨 bái tóu yìng wěi yā (bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
斑嘴鸭 斑嘴鴨 bān zuǐ yā (bird species of China) eastern spot-billed duck (Anas zonorhyncha)
栗树鸭 栗樹鴨 lì shù yā (bird species of China) lesser whistling duck (Dendrocygna javanica)
瘤鸭 瘤鴨 liú yā (bird species of China) knob-billed duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos)
莱桑鸭 萊桑鴨 lái sāng yā Laysan duck
白头树鸭 白頭樹鴨 white-faced whistling duck
双色树鸭 雙色樹鴨 fulvous whistling duck
待毙 待斃 dài bì to await death / to be a sitting duck
春江水暖鸭先知 春江水暖鴨先知 chūn jiāng shuǐ nuǎn yā xiān zhī 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
鸭子儿 鴨子兒 yā zǐ r (coll.) duck's egg syn
㶉鶒 鸂鶒 xī chì a kind of waterbird resembling a mandarin duck
丑鸭 丑鴨 chǒu yā (bird species of China) harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
印缅斑嘴鸭 印緬斑嘴鴨 yìn miǎn bān zuǐ yā (bird species of China) Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
棕颈鸭 棕頸鴨 zōng jǐng yā (bird species of China) Philippine duck (Anas luzonica)
罗纹鸭 羅紋鴨 luó wén yā (bird species of China) falcated duck (Mareca falcata)
长尾鸭 長尾鴨 cháng wěi yā (bird species of China) long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis)
云石斑鸭 雲石斑鴨 yún shí bān yā (bird species of China) marbled teal / marbled duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris)
毛鸭蛋 毛鴨蛋 máo yā dàn balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
鸭仔蛋 鴨仔蛋 yā zǐ dàn balut (boiled duck egg with a partly-developed embryo, which is eaten from the shell)
煮熟的鸭子飞了 煮熟的鴨子飛了 zhǔ shú de yā zi fēi le the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
一学就会 一學就會 yī xué jiù huì to pick up (a skill) in a very short time / to take to sth like a duck to water
印缅斑嘴鸭 印緬斑嘴鴨 yìn - miǎn bān zuǐ yā (bird species of China) Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
㶉𫛶 鸂鶒 xī chì a kind of waterbird resembling a mandarin duck
𬸚𬸦 鸑鷟 yuè zhuó (literary) mythical bird similar to a phoenix / (archaic) waterbird similar to a large duck
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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