"Mandarin ducks" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 鸳鸯 | yuān yang | mandarin ducks / affectionate couple |   |
| 鸳鸯蝴蝶 | yuān yang hú dié | Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) / derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900 | |
| 鸳鸯蝴蝶派 | yuān yang hú dié pài | Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists | |
| 鸳鸯戏水 | yuān yāng xì shuǐ | lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water / fig. to make love | |
