小鴨

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	duck
trad. (小鴨)		小	鴨
simp. (小鸭)		小	鸭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎoyā

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² aap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoyā
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoya
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-ya¹
    • Yale: syǎu-yā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheauia
    • Palladius: сяоя (sjaoja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ jä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² aap³
    • Yale: síu aap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² aap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² ab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ aːp̚³/

Noun

小鴨

1. duckling

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 小鴨 (“duckling”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		小鴨, 小鴨子, 雛鴨, 鴨苗 hatchling, 鴨黃 hatchling
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	小鴨, 小鴨子
	Harbin	鴨崽兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	小鴨
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	小鴨巴兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	小鴨娃兒
	Xi'an	鴨娃兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	鴨娃娃
	Lanzhou	尕鴨子
	Ürümqi	鴨娃子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	小鴨子, 小鴨兒
	Wuhan	小鴨子
	Guiyang	小鴨兒, 子鴨
	Liuzhou	鴨崽
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	雛鴨, 子鴨
	Yangzhou	子鴨 hatchling, 新鴨 hatchling
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鴨仔, 子鴨, 鴨花 hatchling, 鴨苗 hatchling
	Hong Kong	鴨仔
	Dongguan	鴨仔
Gan	Nanchang	鴨崽子
	Lichuan	鴨崽兒
	Pingxiang	鴨崽仔, 子鴨
Hakka	Meixian	細鴨仔, 子鴨
	Yudu	細鴨子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鴨子
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	細鴨仔, 鴨子
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	鴨子
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	鴨子
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	鴨子
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鴨幺, 鴨子
Jin	Taiyuan	小鴨鴨
	Xinzhou	小鴨子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鴨仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鴨囝, 鴨囝囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	鴨仔, 鴨仔囝, 鴨咪
	Quanzhou	鴨仔, 鴨咪
	Zhangzhou	鴨仔, 鴨仔囝, 鴨咪
	Taipei	鴨仔囝
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	鴨仔囝
	Kaohsiung	鴨仔囝
	Yilan	鴨仔囝
	Changhua (Lukang)	鴨仔, 鴨仔囝
	Taichung	鴨咪仔
	Tainan	鴨仔囝
	Hsinchu	鴨仔囝
	Kinmen	鴨仔
	Penghu (Magong)	鴨仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	鴨囝
	Singapore (Hokkien)	鴨仔囝, 鴨咪
	Manila (Hokkien)	鴨仔
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	鴨仔
	Datian	鴨仔
	Shantou	鴨咪
	Jieyang	鴨囝, 鴨伲
	Haifeng	鴨仔
	Leizhou	鴨囝
	Haikou	鴨囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	鴨崽, 細鴨
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	小鴨
	Suzhou	小鴨
	Danyang	小鴨子
	Hangzhou	小鴨兒
	Ningbo	小鴨
	Wenzhou	鴨兒
	Jinhua	小鴨兒
Xiang	Changsha	鴨崽子
	Loudi	鴨崽唧

Derived terms

• 醜小鴨／丑小鸭 (chǒuxiǎoyā)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
小	鴨
こ Grade: 1	かも > がも Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Etymology

Superficially 小(こ) (ko, “small”) + 鴨(かも) (kamo, “duck”). Compare 小杓鴫(コシャクシギ) (koshakushigi, “little curlew, Numenius minutus”), コミチバシリ (komichibashiri, “lesser roadrunner, Geococcyx velox”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ko̞ɡa̠mo̞]

Noun

小鴨: a common teal, Anas crecca

小(こ)鴨(がも) or 小鴨(コガモ) • (kogamo) 

1. teal (freshwater duck of the subfamily Anatinae)