Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.
Components
鳥 Meaning component
bird
Notes
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Similar Characters
梟 owl (trad)鳧 duck (trad)鳩 dove (trad)鳳 male phoenix (trad)鳴 twitter (trad/jp)鳶 milvus (trad)鴂 the tailor-bird鴆 a bird resembling (trad)鴇 bustard (trad)鴈 wild-goose (archaic)鴉 raven (trad)鴒 species (trad)鴔 bird (trad)鴕 ostrich (trad)鴛 male mandarin duck (trad)鴞 owl (trad)鴟 owl (trad)鴣 species (trad)鴨 duck (trad)鴯 swallow (alt) (trad)
Historical Evolution
鴦
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
鴦
Regular
Modern
Chinese
鸯 / 鴦 [yāng]
mandarin duck
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (7)
鸳鸯 [yuānyāng] #17,257
(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
鸳鸯戏水 [yuānyāngxìshuǐ] #53,710
lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water
野鸳鸯 [yěyuānyāng] #61,893
wild mandarin duck
鸳鸯浴 [yuānyāngyù]
taking a bath together as a couple
鸳鸯蝴蝶 [yuānyanghúdié]
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)
鸳鸯蝴蝶派 [yuānyanghúdiépài]
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
鸳鸯锅 [yuānyangguō]
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
JAPANESE WORDS (5)
KOREAN WORDS (1)