Definition
烤鸭 refers to Peking duck, a world-famous Chinese dish of whole roasted duck with crispy skin, typically served with pancakes, scallions, and hoisin sauce. As a verb-object compound (烤 + 鸭), it can also mean 'to roast duck', and in this use it is separable, allowing insertion between the syllables (e.g., 烤了一只鸭 'roasted a duck').
noun
roast duckPeking duck
v.o./n.
(verb-object) to roast duck
Examples
- 烤鸭。Wǒmen yìqǐ qù chī kǎo yā ba.Let's go eat roast duck together.
- 烤鸭。kǎo yā shì Běijīng de tèsè cài zhī yī.Roast duck is one of Beijing's specialty dishes.
- ,。Tā kǎo le yì zhī yā, xiāngwèi pū bí.He roasted a duck, and the aroma was overwhelming.
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