鴨

鴨 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田中竹日火 (WLHAF), four-corner 6752₇, 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”). Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Proto-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) male prostitute (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

   Coordinate term: 雞／鸡 (jī)

3. (Mainland China Mandarin, neologism, slang) Eye dialect spelling of 呀 (ya, “sentence-final particle”).

• “Entry #12123”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(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)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

カモ

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English Wikipedia has an article on:

Duck

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Unknown. Possibly alteration of Old Japanese 浮かむ (ukamu, “to float”), modern 浮かぶ (ukabu). Alternatively, may derive from Middle Chinese 雁 (MC ngaenH, “a type of wild goose”), borrowed with the kan'on reading gan, with initial g changing to k due to the avoidance of voiced stops at the start of Japanese words in older times, and final n changing to mu due to apparent lack of final n in Old Japanese.

• 鳧

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

鴨(かも) or 鴨(カモ) • (kamo) 

1. a duck
2. (slang) (from the way ducks return to the same place and are thus easy to hunt) a mark or easy target for a swindle, someone who is likely to lose at gambling or other competition
3. (slang) (from the good flavor of duck meat) short for 鴨の味 (kamo no aji, “duck flavor”): a very good flavor; by extension, any remarkably good sensation or feeling, particularly describing happy married life
4. (slang) (from the uniform of black clothing) short for 黒鴨 (kurogamo, “black duck”): a male servant, such as a butler or chauffeur (compare English penguin)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カモ.

• 家鴨(あひる), 鶩(あひる) (ahiru): a domestic duck

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

• 賀茂

• IPA^(key):

鴨(かも) • (Kamo) 

1. a surname
2. any of various places, particularly in Kyoto

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

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

鴨(あひる) • (ahiru) 

1. (rare) alternative spelling of 家鴨: a domestic duck, Anas platyrhynchos var. domesticus, descended from the mallard

鴨 (eumhun 오리 압 (ori ap))

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• 𩿠
• 𪆧

From Proto-Vietic *viːt.

鴨 (uịt)

1. duck, drake

• Vietnamese: vịt (鴨)

鴨: Hán Nôm readings: áp, vịt

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