in English

yāng
(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple / happily married couple / used in 鴛鴦|鸳鸯[yuan1yang1]

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鴦, the traditional character: 鸯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 鴦 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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