IDENTITY
鸭yāduck
HSK 3Top 1450
CORE MEANING
duck
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.duckHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 鸟bird radical (niǎo)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰甲鸟
- gives the sound yā
- bird
USAGE
Common words
鸭子yāziduck
烤鸭kǎoyāroast duck
Graded examples
北京烤鸭很有名。Běijīng kǎoyā hěn yǒumíng.HSK3
Beijing roast duck is famous.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
The bird (鸟) whose call is yā (甲) — the duck. (From 鴨.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1450
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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