打鴨子上架

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	duck; male prostitute; rentboy duck; male prostitute; rentboy; moneyboy	up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up	to support; frame; rack to support; frame; rack; framework; measure word for planes, large vehicles, radios, etc.
trad. (打鴨子上架)		打	鴨子	上	架
simp. (打鸭子上架)		打	鸭子	上	架
Literally: “to drive a duck onto a perch”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎ yāzi shàng jià

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄧㄚ ˙ㄗ ㄕㄤˋ ㄐㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² aap³ zi² soeng⁵ gaa^3-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎ yāzi shàng jià
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄧㄚ ˙ㄗ ㄕㄤˋ ㄐㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎ yazi̊h shàng jià
    • Wade–Giles: ta³ ya¹-tzŭ⁵ shang⁴ chia⁴
    • Yale: dǎ yā-dz shàng jyà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daa ia.tzy shanq jiah
    • Palladius: да яцзы шан цзя (da jaczy šan czja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ jä⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩² ʂɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² aap³ zi² soeng⁵ gaa^3-2
    • Yale: dá aap jí séuhng gá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² aap⁸ dzi² soeng⁵ gaa^3-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² ab³ ji² sêng⁵ ga^3-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ aːp̚³ t͡siː³⁵ sœːŋ¹³ kaː³³⁻³⁵/

Idiom

打鴨子上架

1. (figuratively) Synonym of 趕鴨子上架／赶鸭子上架 (gǎn yāzi shàng jià, “to make someone do something entirely beyond them”)