鴛鴦

鴛鴦

1. mandarin duck (Classifier: 隻／只; 雙／双; 對／对)
   • 1986, “女兒情 [Maiden's Love]”, 楊潔 [Yang Jie] (lyrics), 許鏡清 [Xu Jingqing] (music):

     鴛鴦雙棲，蝶雙飛；
     滿園春色惹人醉。 [MSC, trad.]
     鸳鸯双栖，蝶双飞；
     满园春色惹人醉。 [MSC, simp.]

     Yuānyāng shuāngqī, dié shuāngfēi;
     Mǎnyuán chūnsè rě rén zuì. [Pinyin]

     The Mandarin ducks, drake and hen, perch together, the butterflies fly side-by-side;
     The inebriating spring's colours fill the garden.

2. (obsolete) ruddy shelduck
3. (figurative) objects or people occurring in inseparable pairs
4. (figurative) affectionate couple; happily married couple
5. yuenyeung (a beverage made from mixing coffee with Hong Kong-style milk tea) (Classifier: 杯)

Others:

• → English: yuenyeung (from Cantonese)
• → English: yuanyang (from Mandarin)
• ⇒ Zhuang: roegyaemyieng

鴛鴦

1. (～鄉) Yuanyang (a township in Maojian district, Shiyan, Hubei, China)

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720.^[1]

• /wosi/ → /oɕi/

Further derivation unclear. Possibly from Old and Classical Japanese adjective 愛し (woshi, modern reading oshi, “dear, loving”), from the way the ducks are believed to mate for life and seldom stray far from one another. This interpretation is traced back to readings applied to the Nihon Shoki and understandings of the 詩経 (Shikyō, “Shījīng” or “Classic of Poetry”).^[1]

The spelling is from Chinese, with 鴛 representing the male bird and 鴦 representing the female bird.

• (Tokyo) おし [óꜜshì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [o̞ɕi]

鴛鴦(おし) or 鴛鴦(オシ) • (oshi) ^{←をし (wosi) or ヲシ (wosi)?}

1. [from 720] (archaic, poetic) older name of the 鴛鴦(おしどり) (oshidori, “mandarin duck”)
2. [from 1220] a kind of 家紋(かもん) (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a mandarin duck

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

• アメリカオシ (amerika oshi)

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Man'yōshū of 759.^[1]

Compound of 鴛鴦 (oshi, “mandarin duck”) +‎ 鳥 (tori, “bird”). The tori changes to dori as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• (Tokyo) おしどり [òshíꜜdòrì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [o̞ɕido̞ɾʲi]

鴛鴦(おしどり) or 鴛鴦(オシドリ) • (oshidori) ^{←をしどり (wosidori) or ヲシドリ (wosidori)?}

1. [from 759] a mandarin duck, Aix galericulata
2. [from 1739] (figurative) a pair of lovebirds, a loving couple
3. [from 1791] a topknot or bun hairstyle wherein the hair is bunched on each side in a shape vaguely resembling two mandarin ducks

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

• 鴛鴦夫(おしどりふう)婦(ふ) (oshidori fūfu, “loving couple”)
• アメリカオシドリ (amerika oshidori)

/weɴau/ → /weɴɔː/ → /eɴoː/

From Middle Chinese 鴛鴦 (MC 'jwon|'won 'jang|'ang, literally “male mandarin duck + female mandarin duck”). First cited in Japanese to a text from 835.^[1]

• (Tokyo) えんおー [èń'óó] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɰ̃o̞ː]

鴛(えん)鴦(おう) • (en'ō) ^{←ゑんあう (wen'au)?}

1. [from 835] (rare) a mandarin duck, Aix galericulata
2. [from early 1100s] (rare, figurative) a pair of lovebirds, a loving couple

鴛鴦 • (wonang) (hangeul 원앙)

1. hanja form^? of 원앙 (“mandarin duck”)

鴛鴦

1. chữ Hán form of uyên ương (“mandarin duck”)