鳧舄

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Chinese

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wild duck; to swim shoe; slipper
trad. (鳧舄)
simp. (凫舄)
Literally: “duck-as-slipper”.

Etymology

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From a story of the Han-era adept Wang Qiao in the Book of the Later Han.

東南於是 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
东南于是 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: The Book of the Later Han, circa 5th century CE
Zhé yǒu shuāng fú cóng dōngnán fēi lái. Yúshì hòu fú zhì, jǔ luó zhāng zhī, dàn dé yī zhī xì yān. [Pinyin]
Thereupon a pair of wild ducks flew in from the southeast. They then waited for the ducks to arrive and raised a net to capture them, but all they obtained was a slipper.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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鳧舄

  1. (literary) adeptal magical arts