羽

Stroke order

Stroke order

• In modern Chinese scripts, Japanese kanji and Vietnamese Nôm, the two strokes in the component 习 are written in opposite directions (冫).
• In Korean hanja, the two strokes in the component 习 are written in the same direction (丿), which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• A CJK compatibility ideograph exists at U+FA1E for the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

 

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Radical 124 羽

羽 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸一尸戈一 (SMSIM) or 尸竹尸竹竹 (SHSHH), four-corner 1712₀, composition ⿰习习(GHTJV) or ⿰⿹𠃌⿱丿丿⿹𠃌⿱丿丿(K or U+FA1E))

1. Kangxi radical #124, ⽻.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/羽
• 𪜹, 𭎛, 𪥵, 𢌟, 𭚰, 𫹓, 挧, 𣴆, 𪰣, 栩, 𣭜, 𪸪, 珝, 祤, 𬏬, 𭾲, 𥏊, 𥒉, 𮇝, 䋚(䌻), 蛡, 詡(诩), 趐, 䟳, 𨋾, 𮠪, 𨦫(䦀), 𩗍, 𮪄, 鮙, 𬖅 翳
• 䣁, 頨, 𩢳, 𢏖, 𢬙, 毣, 𫊼, 𫖈, 𥂨, 𪓦, 𦭳, 扇, 䎝, 䨒, 𩭅, 𪊮, 𨌺, 𣷺, 禤, 𧝁, 𨶟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 955, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28614
• Dae Jaweon: page 1400, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3341, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7FBD

• Unihan data for U+FA1E

Historical forms of the character 羽
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : wings or feathers.

Either from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa (“feather”), whence Tibetan སྒྲོ (sgro, “large feather”) (Coblin, 1986; Gong Hwang-cherng, 2002; STEDT), or *w(a/u) (“bird; egg; wing; fowl”) (Matisoff, 2000; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2021b; STEDT).

羽

1. feather; plume
2. wing

   • 蜉蝣之羽，衣裳楚楚。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Fúyóu zhī yǔ, yīcháng chǔchǔ. [Pinyin]

     The wings of the ephemera,
     Are robes, bright and splendid.

3. ^† birds
4. Classifier for birds.
5. ^† fletching
6. ^† arrow
7. ^† banner; flag
8. ^† letter (written communication)
9. ^† feather fan
10. ^† float (object attached to a fishing line)
11. ^† friends; comrades

    黨羽／党羽  ―  dǎngyǔ  ―  clique

12. (music) fifth note in the Chinese pentatonic scale

    • 羽者，紆也，陰氣在上，陽氣在下；……。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
      羽者，纡也，阴气在上，阳气在下；……。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

      From: Ban Gu, The Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall, 79 CE, translated based on Tjan Tjoe Som's version

      Yǔ zhě, yū yě, yīnqì zàishàng, yángqì zàixià;....... [Pinyin]

      Yǔ means yū ‘to twist’; the yin-fluid is above, the yang-fluid is below; […] .

13. a surname

• (Chinese pentatonic scale) 宮／宫 (gōng), 商 (shāng), 角, 徵／征, 羽

Based on a commentary to the following passage from the Kao Gong Ji in the Rites of Zhou by the Eastern Han scholar Zheng Xuan (鄭玄, 127–200): 「弓而羽閷，末應將發。」 The Tang-era scholar Jia Gongyan (賈公彥) considers Zheng's reading as 破讀／破读 (pòdú, “isolated instance of unusual pronunciation”). The textual quality of the passage, along with the meaning of the Zheng–Jia commentaries, has been called into question.^[1][2]

羽

1. ^† The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. slow and relaxed (the same as 緩)

• “羽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	羽
Kyūjitai [1]	羽 羽 or 羽+︀?
	羽󠄀 羽+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
	羽󠄃 羽+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: う (u, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: う (u, Jōyō)
• Kun: は (ha, 羽, Jōyō)、はね (hane, 羽, Jōyō)、やばね (yabane, 羽)、わ (wa, 羽)
• Nanori: しゅう (shū)、は (ha)、ば (ba)、はね (hane)、わね (wane)

Appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 938 CE.^[2]

Compound of 羽 (ha, “feather”, see below) +‎ 根 (ne, “root”), originally referring specifically to where the quill of a feather attaches to the skin. Over time, the meaning broadened to refer to a feather, and from there, to refer to a wing.^[2]

• (Tokyo) はね [hàné] (Heiban – [0])^[3]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ne̞]

羽(はね) • (hane) 

1. (archaic) the portion of a feather where the quill attaches to the skin

   Synonyms: (rare) 羽茎 (haguki), (rare) 翮 (kaku)

2. a feather, down, plume

   Synonym: 羽毛 (umō)

3. a wing (as of a bird, bat, insect, or airplane)

   Synonym: 翼 (tsubasa)

4. a fletching on an arrow

   Synonyms: 矢羽根, 矢羽 (yabane)

5. a shuttlecock

   Synonym: 羽子 (hago)

6. a blade (of a fan)

羽(はね) • (Hane) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

From Old Japanese.

May be cognate with 葉 (ha, “leaf”).

• (Tokyo) は [hà] (Heiban – [0])^[3][4][5]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠]

羽(は) • (ha) 

1. a feather (including synthetic feathers, as on a modern shuttlecock)
2. a wing (as of a bird, bat, insect, or airplane)

   Synonym: 翼 (tsubasa)

3. a fletching on an arrow
4. (archery) when a bow is strung, the distance between the grip and the serving (nocking point) on the bowstring
5. the thin, flange-like overhanging part of a tea ceremony kettle
6. Short for 羽振り (haburi): This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
7. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of bird feathers

• 羽(は)が利(き)く (ha ga kiku)

羽(は) or 羽(ば) or 羽(ぱ) or 羽(わ) • (-ha or -ba or -pa or -wa) 

1. counter for birds
2. counter for leporids

When suffixed, the -ha changes to either ば (-ba) or ぱ (-pa) due to rendaku (連濁), or わ (-wa) due to ハ行転呼音 (ha-gyō tenkoon, “historical ha-column sound shift”), as in /-p-/ → /-ɸ-/ → /-w-/.

From Middle Chinese 羽 (MC hjuX|hjuH).

• (Tokyo) う [úꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3]
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟]

羽(う) • (u) 

1. (music) the fifth and highest note in the Chinese pentatonic scale

   Hypernyms: 五音, 五韻 (goin)

羽(う) • (u) 

1. wing (of a bird or insect)
2. (historical) Short for 出羽国 (Dewa-no-kuni): Dewa Province

羽 (eumhun 깃 우 (git u))

1. hanja form^? of 우 (“feather”)

羽 (eumhun 늦출 호 (neutchul ho))

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

First attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

Possibly cognate with 葉 (pa, “leaf”).

羽 (pa) (kana は)

1. a feather, down, plume
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 20, poem 4494:

     水鳥乃可毛羽能伊呂乃青馬乎家布美流比等波可芸利奈之等伊布

     mi₁duto₂ri no₂ kamopa no₂ iro₂ no₂ awouma wo ke₁pu mi₁ru hi₁to₂ pa kagi₁ri nasi to₂ ipu

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a wing (of an insect)
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 3, poem 376:

     秋津羽之袖振妹乎珠匣奥尓念乎見賜吾君

     akidupa no₂ so₁de puru imo wo tamakusige₂ oku ni omopu wo mi₁tamape₁ waga ki₁mi₁

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. a fletching on an arrow

• あきづ羽 (akidupa)
• 出羽 (Idepa → Depa)

• Japanese: 羽 (は, ha, ば, -ba, ぱ, -pa, わ, -wa)

羽: Hán Nôm readings: võ, vũ

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羽

1. Sawndip form of fwed (“wing”)