鸭
yā HSK5

duck

鸭 (鴨) yā
duck noun
a common waterbird with webbed feet and a broad bill

厨师正在熟练地处理这只鸭。

chú​shī zhèng​zài shú​liàn de chǔ​lǐ zhè zhī yā.

The chef is skillfully preparing the duck.

male prostitute noun
(slang) a man who provides sexual services for payment

在某些地下场所，有人专门从事做鸭的行当。

zài mǒu​xiē dì​xià chǎng​suǒ, yǒu rén zhuān​mén cóng​shì zuò​yā de háng​dang.

In some underground establishments, some men work as male prostitutes.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)