Phrase guide

Peking duck

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˌpiːkɪŋ ˈdʌk/
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noun

Meaning 1

A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: պեկինյան բադ (pekinyan bad) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Burmese: ပီကင်းဘဲကင် (pikang:bhai:kang) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Catalan: ànec de Pequín — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Catalan: ànec pequinès — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Catalan: ànec lacat a la pequinesa — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Catalan: ànec lacat — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Catalan: ànec a la pequinesa — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Chinese Cantonese: 北京填鴨 /北京填鸭 — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Chinese Cantonese: 片皮鴨 /片皮鸭 — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Chinese Mandarin: 北京烤鴨 /北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Chinese Mandarin: 北平烤鴨 /北平烤鸭 (Běipíng kǎoyā) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Czech: pekingská kachna — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Dutch: pekingeend — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Esperanto: pekina anaso — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Estonian: Pekingi part — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Finnish: Pekingin ankka — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • French: canard laqué de Pékin — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • French: canard laqué — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • German: Pekingente — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Hungarian: pekingi kacsa — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Icelandic: pekingönd — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Indonesian: bebek Peking — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Italian: anatra laccata alla pechinese — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Italian: anatra laccata — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Italian: anatra alla pechinese — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Japanese: 北京ダック (Pekin dakku) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Korean: 북경오리 (Bukgyeong'ori) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Korean: 베이징오리 (Beijing'ori) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Korean: 북경 오리구이 (Bukgyeong origu'i) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Korean: 베이징 오리구이 (Beijing origu'i) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Korean: 베이징 카오야 (Beijing kaoya) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Macedonian: пекиншка патка (pekinška patka) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Malay: itik Peking — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Malay: itik panggang Peking — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pekingand — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pekingand — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Persian: مرغابی پکن (morġâbi pekan) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Persian: اردک پکن (ordak pekan) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Polish: kaczka po pekińsku — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Portuguese: pato à Pequim — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Portuguese: pato assado de Pequim — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Russian: пеки́нская у́тка (pekínskaja útka) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Russian: у́тка по-пеки́нски (útka po-pekínski) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Serbo-Croatian: пекиншка па̏тка — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Serbo-Croatian: pekinška pȁtka — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Spanish: pato laqueado a la pekinesa — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Spanish: pato laqueado — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Spanish: pato a la pekinesa — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Spanish: pato pekinés — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Swedish: pekinganka — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Swedish: Beijing-anka — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Tagalog: bibing Peking — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Tagalog: patong Peking — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Thai: เป็ดปักกิ่ง (bpèt bpàk-gìng) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Turkish: Pekin ördeği — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Ukrainian: пекі́нська ка́чка (pekínsʹka káčka) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Uyghur: بېيجىڭ ئۆردەك كاۋىپى (bëyjing ördek kawipi) — dish consisting of duck and pancake
  • Vietnamese: vịt quay Bắc Kinh — dish consisting of duck and pancake