See also: 鸭子

Chinese

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Etymology 1

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duck noun suffix
trad. (鴨子)
simp. (鸭子)
anagram 子鴨子鸭

Pronunciation

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Noun

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鴨子

  1. duck (Classifier: m)
  2. (slang) male prostitute; rentboy; moneyboy
  3. (Changting Hakka) female prostitute
  4. (dialectal Mandarin) male genitalia; penis
Synonyms
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  • (duck):
  • (male prostitute):
  • (female prostitute):
  • (penis):
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Tibetan: ཡ་ཙེ (ya tse)

Etymology 2

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duck egg
trad. (鴨子)
simp. (鸭子)
anagram 子鴨子鸭

Pronunciation

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Noun

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鴨子

  1. (literary or dialectal) duck egg
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Etymology 3

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duck child; son
trad. (鴨子)
simp. (鸭子)
anagram 子鴨子鸭

Pronunciation

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Noun

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鴨子

  1. (Hakka) duckling
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Etymology 4

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see 丫子 (“foot”).
(This term is a variant form of 丫子).

References

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  • 鴨子”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
  • 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “鸭子”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 2.