mandarin duck
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(bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple / happily married couple
magnificent fabrics
lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water / fig. to make love
taking a bath together as a couple
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) / derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
(idiom) to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure) / to forcibly break up a couple against their will
wild mandarin duck / (derog.) illicit lovers / unorthodox couple
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