Peking duck

See also: Pekin duck

English

Alternative forms

• Peiping duck (dated)
• Beijing duck (uncommon)

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking +‎ duck.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Peking duck (uncountable)

1. A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
   • 1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal‎^[1], New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94:

     During out third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us. We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.

   • 2022 May 18, Thomas Suen Suen, Ryan Woo, Ellen Zhang, “COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 May 2022, China:

     As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck. […] "Our Peking duck sales have even gone up," Zheng, 35, told Reuters outside his restaurant as a queue of customers waited.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peking duck.

Translations

dish consisting of duck and pancake

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: պեկինյան բադ (pekinyan bad)
• Burmese: ပီကင်းဘဲကင် (pikang:bhai:kang)
• Catalan: ànec de Pequín m, ànec pequinès m, ànec lacat a la pequinesa m, ànec lacat (ca) m, ànec a la pequinesa (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北京填鴨／北京填鸭 (bak¹ ging¹ tin⁴ aap^3-2), 片皮鴨／片皮鸭 (pin^3-2 pei⁴ aap^3-2)

  Mandarin: 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (zh) (Běijīng kǎoyā), (Taiwan also) 北平烤鴨／北平烤鸭 (Běipíng kǎoyā)

• Czech: pekingská kachna f
• Dutch: pekingeend f
• Esperanto: pekina anaso
• Estonian: Pekingi part (et)
• Finnish: Pekingin ankka (fi)
• French: canard laqué de Pékin m, canard laqué m
• German: Pekingente f
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: pekingi kacsa (hu)
• Icelandic: pekingönd f
• Indonesian: bebek Peking
• Italian: anatra laccata alla pechinese f, anatra laccata f, anatra alla pechinese f
• Japanese: 北京ダック (ja) (Pekin dakku)
• Korean: 북경오리 (Bukgyeong'ori), 베이징오리 (Beijing'ori), 북경 오리구이 (Bukgyeong origu'i), 베이징 오리구이 (Beijing origu'i), 베이징 카오야 (Beijing kaoya)
• Macedonian: пекиншка патка f (pekinška patka)
• Malay: itik Peking, itik panggang Peking
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pekingand m or f

  Nynorsk: pekingand f

• Persian: مرغابی پکن (morğâbi pekan), اردک پکن (ordak pekan)
• Polish: kaczka po pekińsku f
• Portuguese: pato à Pequim m, pato assado de Pequim m
• Russian: пеки́нская у́тка f (pekínskaja útka), у́тка по-пеки́нски f (útka po-pekínski)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пекиншка па̏тка f

  Roman: pekinška pȁtka f

• Spanish: pato laqueado a la pekinesa m, pato laqueado m, pato a la pekinesa m, pato pekinés m
• Swedish: pekinganka c, Beijing-anka c
• Tagalog: bibing Peking, patong Peking
• Thai: เป็ดปักกิ่ง (bpèt bpàk-gìng)
• Turkish: Pekin ördeği (tr)
• Ukrainian: пекі́нська ка́чка f (pekínsʹka káčka)
• Uyghur: بېيجىڭ ئۆردەك كاۋىپى (bëyjing ördek kawipi)
• Vietnamese: vịt quay Bắc Kinh

Further reading

• “Peking duck”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Peking duck, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Peking duck”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Peking duck”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Peking duck” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.