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U+9D28, 鴨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D28

[U+9D27]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9D29]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 196, +5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田中竹日火 (WLHAF), four-corner 67527, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46823
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2018, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4623, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9D28

Chinese

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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qraːb): phonetic (OC *kraːb) + semantic (bird).

Etymology

Shuowen commented that is the colloquial name for (OC *moɡs, *moːɡ, “duck”). Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Proto-Tani *ǰap (duck).

Another word meaning "duck" in Old Chinese is (OC *pʰid), a substrate loanword, possibly from Tai-Kadai or Austroasiatic.

“male prostitute”
By analogy with (, “female prostitute”, literally “chicken”). First used in 1991 film 《雞鴨戀》. (Zhang, 2018)

Pronunciation


Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Note:

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Definitions

  1. duck (Classifier: c)
    北京烤北京烤   Běijīng kǎo   Peking duck
  2. (slang) male prostitute (Classifier: c)
    Coordinate term:  / ()
  3. (Mainland China Mandarin, neologism, slang) eye dialect spelling of (ya, sentence-final particle) [since 2018]

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