羽

• 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.

羽 (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.

• Index:Chinese radical/羽
• 𪜹, 𭎛, 𪥵, 𢌟, 𭚰, 挧, 𣴆, 𪰣, 栩, 𣭜, 𪸪, 珝, 𭾲, 𥏊, 𥒉, 祤, 𮇝, 䋚(䌻), 蛡, 詡(诩), 趐, 䟳, 𨋾, 𨌺, 𮠪, 𨦫(䦀), 𩗍, 𮪄, 鮙, 䣁, 頨, 𩢳, 𦭳, 扇, 䎝, 䨒, 𩭅, 𪊮, 𨶟

• KangXi: page 955, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28614
• Dae Jaweon: page 1400, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: 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.

羽

1. feather, plume
2. wing
3. (music) fifth note in the Chinese pentatonic scale, or la

• (Chinese pentatonic scale) 宮, 商, 角, 徵, 羽

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. feathers
2. counter for birds, rabbits

• Go-on: う (u, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: う (u, Jōyō)
• Kun: は (ha, 羽, Jōyō); はね (hane, 羽, Jōyō); わ (wa, 羽)
• Nanori: しゅう (shū); ば (ba)

Appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 938 CE.[1]

Compound of 羽 (ha, “feather”) +‎ 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.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) はね [hàné] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠ne̞]

• 羽根, 翅, 羽子

羽 (hiragana はね, rōmaji hane)

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

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

2. a feather

   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)

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Kojiki of 712 CE, and the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

May be cognate with 葉 (ha, “leaf”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) は [hà] (Heiban – [0])[2][3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠]

羽 (hiragana は, rōmaji 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

Shift in reading of ha above due to ハ行転呼, i.e. /p/>/w/

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ɰᵝa̠]

羽 (hiragana わ, rōmaji -wa, historical hiragana は)

1. counter for birds
2. counter for leporids

From Middle Chinese 羽 (MC ɦɨo^X, ɦɨo^H).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) う​ [úꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝ]

羽 (hiragana う, rōmaji u)

1. feather; wing

羽 (hiragana う, rōmaji u)

1. (music) the highest tone of a pentatonic scale

羽 (hiragana う, rōmaji U)

1. (historical) the ancient Japanese province of 出羽 (Dewa)

   Only used in compounds.

羽 • (u) (hangeul 우)

1. the fifth note in the pentatonic scale; la

羽 (võ, vũ)

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