HSK 4 · Food

烤鸭 kǎoyā “roast duck” in Chinese

Traditional 烤鴨

What 烤鸭 means

  1. roast duck

How to say 烤鸭

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale烤kǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale鸭yā1st tone, high and level

烤鸭 in a sentence

  1. 我们在中餐厅吃了北京烤鸭。

    Wǒmen zài zhōngcāntīng chī le Běijīng kǎoyā.

    We had Peking duck at a Chinese restaurant.

    Sentence #661545 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 烤鸭 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 烤 (kǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
烤kǎoto roast; to grill; to broil; to bake
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 考to test · kǎoSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 考 (kǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with kǎo.

The character 鸭 (yā) with each of its parts in a different colour
鸭yāduck 只)
  • 甲part of the characterSound part
  • 鸟bird · diǎoMeaning part

How to write 烤鸭

烤 10 strokes · 鸭 10 strokes

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烤鸭 (kǎoyā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 烤鸭 (kǎoyā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 烤鸭

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FAQs

烤鸭 (kǎoyā) means “roast duck”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it kǎoyā: kǎo with a 3rd tone, then yā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 烤鸭 is written 烤鴨. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaoya with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 烤鸭 from the suggestions. Typing kaoya into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
烤鸭 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.