Dictionary

Peking duck en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌpiːkɪŋ ˈdʌk/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
   • 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. 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, archived from the original on 18 May 2022, China:
   • 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. 1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94:

Forms

Translations (58)

cmn 北京烤鴨 /北京烤鸭 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ca ànec pequinès (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · es pato laqueado a la pekinesa (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · eo pekina anaso (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · tl patong Peking (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · fr canard laqué (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · de Pekingente (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · es pato a la pekinesa (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · tl bibing Peking (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · hy պեկինյան բադ (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ca ànec a la pequinesa (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · my ပီကင်းဘဲကင် (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · it anatra laccata (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · vi vịt quay Bắc Kinh (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · pl kaczka po pekińsku (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ca ànec de Pequín (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ko 베이징 오리구이 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · it anatra alla pechinese (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ca ànec lacat (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ja 北京ダック (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · fr canard laqué de Pékin (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · mk пекиншка патка (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ms itik Peking (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · nn pekingand (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · nb pekingand (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ms itik panggang Peking (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ca ànec lacat a la pequinesa (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · fi Pekingin ankka (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · tr Pekin ördeği (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · cs pekingská kachna (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ru пеки́нская у́тка (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · it anatra laccata alla pechinese (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ru у́тка по-пеки́нски (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · yue 北京填鴨 /北京填鸭 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · fa مرغابی پکن (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · sh pekinška pȁtka (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ko 북경오리 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · cmn 北平烤鴨 /北平烤鸭 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · es pato pekinés (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · fa اردک پکن (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ko 베이징 카오야 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · id bebek Peking (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · sh пекиншка па̏тка (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · nl pekingeend (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · sv pekinganka (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · is pekingönd (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ko 북경 오리구이 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · hu pekingi kacsa (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ko 베이징오리 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · pt pato à Pequim (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · uk пекі́нська ка́чка (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · et Pekingi part (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · ug بېيجىڭ ئۆردەك كاۋىپى (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · th เป็ดปักกิ่ง (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · yue 片皮鴨 /片皮鸭 (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · pt pato assado de Pequim (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · es pato laqueado (dish consisting of duck and pancake) · sv Beijing-anka (dish consisting of duck and pancake)