鸭
yā HSK5

duck

鸭 鴨 yā
duck noun
(bound form) duck; any of various swimming birds of the family Anatidae, usually referring to the domestic duck 鸭子 yā​zi

从前，有一只母鸭。

cóng​qián, yǒu yī zhī mǔ yā.

Once upon a time there was a mother duck.

male prostitute
(slang) a male prostitute; a gigolo

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,133rd most common 30.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,121st most common 16.0 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.35 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
22.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
鴨
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+9E2D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)