鴨 (Kangxi radical 196,鳥+5, 16 strokes,cangjie input田中竹日火 (WLHAF),four-corner6752₇,composition⿰甲鳥)

• 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

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

Shuowen commented that鴨 is the colloquial name for鶩 (OC*moɡs, *moːɡ, “duck”). Probablyonomatopoeic in origin. CompareProto-Tani*ǰap(“duck”).

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

“male prostitute”

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

鴨

1. duck(Classifier:隻／只c)

   北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭  ― Běijīng kǎoyā  ― Peking duck

2. (slang)maleprostitute(Classifier:隻／只c)

   Coordinate term:雞 /鸡(jī)

3. (Mainland China Mandarin, neologism, slang)eye dialect spelling of呀(ya,“sentence-final particle”)[since 2018]

• “鴨”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2025.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on:よう(yō)^{←えふ(efu,historical)}
• Kan-on:おう(ō)^{←あふ(afu,historical)}
• Kun:かも(kamo,鴨)、あひる(ahiru,鴨)

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Unknown. Possibly alteration ofOld Japanese浮かむ(ukamu,“to float”), modern浮かぶ(ukabu). Alternatively, may derive fromMiddle Chinese雁 (MC ngaenH, “a type of wild goose”), borrowed with thekan'on readinggan, with initialg changing tok due to the avoidance of voiced stops at the start of Japanese words in older times, and finaln changing tomu due to apparent lack of finaln inOld Japanese.

• 鳧

• (Tokyo)かも[káꜜmò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠mo̞]

鴨(かも)or鴨(カモ)• (kamo) 

1. aduck
2. (slang)(from the way ducks return to the same place and are thus easy to hunt) amark or easytarget for aswindle, someone who is likely to lose atgambling or other competition
3. (slang)(from the good flavor of duck meat) short for鴨の味(kamo no aji,“duck flavor”): a very goodflavor; by extension, any remarkably goodsensation orfeeling, particularly describing happymarriedlife
4. (slang)(from the uniform of black clothing) short for黒鴨(kurogamo,“black duck”): amaleservant, such as abutler orchauffeur (compare Englishpenguin)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is oftenspelled inkatakana, especially inbiological contexts (where katakana is customary), asカモ(kamo).

• 家鴨(あひる),鶩(あひる)(ahiru): adomestic duck

Probably from theduck sense above, in reference to the鴨川(Kamogawa, literally“duck river”) flowing throughKyoto.

• 賀茂

• IPA^(key): [ka̠mo̞]

鴨(かも)• (Kamo) 

1. asurname
2. any of various places, particularly inKyoto

Rare alternative spelling for家鴨(ahiru). See that entry for fuller details.

• (Tokyo)あひる[àhírú] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [a̠çiɾɯ̟]

鴨(あひる)• (ahiru) 

1. (rare)alternative spelling of家鴨: adomestic duck,Anas platyrhynchos var. domesticus, descended from themallard

• “^▲鴨”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

鴨 (eumhun오리압(ori ap))

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• 𩿠
• 𪆧

FromProto-Vietic*viːt.

鴨 (uịt)

1. duck,drake

• Vietnamese:vịt (鴨)

鴨:Hán Nôm readings:áp,vịt

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