羽

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

羽 (radical 124 羽+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸一尸戈一 (SMSIM), four-corner 1712₀)

1. feather, plume
2. wings
3. fifth note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or la
4. rad. 124

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

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		羽

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔ (yu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yí
• Min Nan (POJ): ú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yü³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeu
    • IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁵
    • Yale: yúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yí
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ji³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ú
    • Tâi-lô: ú
    • IPA (Taipei): /u⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /u⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (羽, reconstructed)
Character (羽), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 王矩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɨoX/	/i̯uX/	/ɣioX/	/ɦioX/	/ɦuə̆X/	/ɣĭuX/	/ɣioX/
Character (羽), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 王遇切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɨoH/	/i̯uH/	/ɣioH/	/ɦioH/	/ɦuə̆H/	/ɣĭuH/	/ɣioH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (羽, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
羽								yǔ								‹ hjuX ›								/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
羽					15946					羽					魚					0					羽					/*ɢʷaʔ/
羽					15950					羽					魚					0					芋					/*ɢʷas/

Compounds

• 羽翅
• 羽冠
• 羽毛
• 羽毛丰满
• 羽毛球
• 羽毛未丰
• 羽绒
• 羽扇
• 羽翼

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

羽

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. feathers
2. counter for birds, rabbits

Readings

• On: う (u)
• Kun: は (ha), はね (hane), わ (wa)

Compounds

• 羽田 (はだ, Hada)
• 羽田 (はねだ, Haneda)

Counter

羽 (hiragana わ, romaji -wa)

1. birds
2. rabbits

Kanji in this term

羽

はね Grade: 2

kun'yomi

Noun

羽 (hiragana はね, romaji hane)

1. a feather
2. a wing
3. a blade (of a fan)

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Korean

Hanja

羽 (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

1. the fifth note in the pentatonic scale; la

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Vietnamese

Han character

羽 (vũ, võ)

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