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ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	PlainPY	English Definition
ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	PlainPY	English Definition
1	野鸳鸯	野鴛鴦	yě yuān yāng	ye3 yuan1 yang1	wild mandarin duck; (derog.) illicit lovers; unorthodox couple
2	鸳	鴛	yuān	yuan1	mandarin duck
3	鸳梦重温	鴛夢重溫	yuān mèng chóng wēn	yuan1 meng4 chong2 wen1	to rekindle an old flame of love; reunion of old lovers after a long separation (idiom)
4	鸳绮	鴛綺	yuān qǐ	yuan1 qi3	magnificent fabrics
5	鸳鸯	鴛鴦	yuān yāng	yuan1 yang1	(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata); (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple
6	鸳鸯戏水	鴛鴦戲水	yuān yāng xì shuǐ	yuan1 yang1 xi4 shui3	lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water; fig. to make love
7	鸳鸯浴	鴛鴦浴	yuān yāng yù	yuan1 yang1 yu4	taking a bath together as a couple
8	鸳鸯锅	鴛鴦鍋	yuān yang guō	yuan1 yang5 guo1	"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
9	鸳鸯蝴蝶	鴛鴦蝴蝶	yuān yang hú dié	yuan1 yang5 hu2 die2	Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds); derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900
10	鸳鸯蝴蝶派	鴛鴦蝴蝶派	yuān yang hú dié pài	yuan1 yang5 hu2 die2 pai4	Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists