羽

羽 U+7FBD, 羽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FBD
← 羼
[U+7FBC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羾 →
[U+7FBE]
羽 U+FA1E, 羽
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA1E
← 精
[U+FA1D] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 﨟 →
[U+FA1F]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

羽 (radical 124, 羽+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸一尸戈一 (SMSIM), four-corner 17120, composition ⿰习习 (GTJV) or ⿰⿹𠃌⿱丿丿⿹𠃌⿱丿丿 (K))

  1. Kangxi radical #124, ⽻.

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/羽

References

  • 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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 羽
alt. forms 𦏲

Glyph origin

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
Characters in the same phonetic series (羽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
詡 *qʰʷaʔ
栩 *qʰʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
珝 *qʰʷaʔ
祤 *qʰʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
羽 *ɢʷaʔ, *ɢʷas
頨 *peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan

Pictogram (象形) .

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 羽
Mandarin Beijing /y²¹⁴/
Harbin /y²¹³/
Tianjin /y¹³/
Jinan /y⁵⁵/
Qingdao /y⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /y⁵³/
Xi'an /y⁵³/
Xining /y⁵³/
Yinchuan /y⁵³/
Lanzhou /y¹³/
Ürümqi /y⁵¹/
Wuhan /y⁴²/
Chengdu /y⁵³/
Guiyang /i⁴²/
Kunming /i⁵³/
Nanjing /y²¹²/
Hefei /zz̩ʷ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /y⁵³/
Pingyao /y⁵³/
Hohhot /y⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ɦy²³/
Suzhou /y⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔz̩ʷ⁵³/
Wenzhou /vu³⁵/
Hui Shexian /y³⁵/
Tunxi /ȵy²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /y⁴¹/
Xiangtan /y²¹/
Gan Nanchang /y²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /i⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /jy²³/
Nanning /y²⁴/
Hong Kong /jy²³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /u⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /y³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /u⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zi³¹/
Rime
Character 羽 羽
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 王矩切 王遇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨoX/ /ɦɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦioX/ /ɦioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣioX/ /ɣioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuə̆X/ /ɦuə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ɣioX/ /ɣioH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭuX/ /ɣĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uX/ /i̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǔ yù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 羽
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/
English feather, wing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 羽 羽
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15946 15950
Phonetic
component		 羽 羽
Rime
group		 魚 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 羽 芋
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷaʔ/ /*ɢʷas/

Definitions

羽

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

Coordinate terms

Compounds

Japanese

shinjitai

 羽

kyūjitai

 羽

Kanji

羽

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. feathers
  2. counter for birds, rabbits

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
羽
はね
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

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]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

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)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
羽
は
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

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”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
羽
わ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Shift in reading of ha above.

Pronunciation

Counter

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

  1. counter for birds
  2. counter for rabbits

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
羽
う
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 羽 (MC ɦɨoX, ɦɨoH).

Pronunciation

Noun

羽 (hiragana う, rōmaji u)

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

Proper noun

羽 (hiragana う, rōmaji U)

  1. (historical) the ancient Japanese province of 出羽 (Dewa)
    Only used in compounds.
Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

羽 • (u) (hangeul 우)

  1. the fifth note in the pentatonic scale; la

Vietnamese

Han character

羽 (võ, vũ)

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