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泥鴨
  nai4 aap3*2   jyutping
  ni2 ya1   pinyin
[1] "mud duck", a hybrid duck breed from southern China, the offspring of a male 番鴨 (Fan'ap) and a female (Tong'ap). Laiap ducks are fairly large white birds with brown beaks with a red edge that are kept without the need for extensive ponds by farmers in Guangdong.
[2] Fuidung’on Hakka term in Suriname for local born or mixed Chinese. It is analogous in flavor to the term "mulatto" in English: + (i.e., use the analogy for black + white) = (somewhat like mud, a mixture of the two that is neither black nor white).

noun

Level: 4
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
泥鴨

This word has been viewed 1456 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 21st Mar 2008 21:17 and last edited on 17th Nov 2009 05:25
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Characters in this word:

 nai4 nei6  -  mud, plaster; bigoted
 aap3  -  duck; gigolo
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