翼

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 羽 + phonetic 異

Han character

翼 (radical 124 羽+12 in Chinese, 羽+11 in Japanese, in Chinese 18 strokes, in Japanese 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸一田廿金 (SMWTC), four-corner 1780₁, composition ⿱羽異)

1. wings
2. fins on fish
3. shelter

References

• KangXi: page 959, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28801
• Dae Jaweon: page 1406, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3356, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7FFC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

翼 (Yale yik6)

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Japanese

Kanji

翼 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go'on: いき (iki)
• Kan'on: よく (yoku)
• Kun: つばさ (tsubasa)
• Nanori: たすく (tasuku)

Compounds

• 翼衛
• 翼賛
• 翼室
• 翼成

Noun

翼 (hiragana つばさ, romaji tsubasa)

1. wing (e.g. of a bird)

Proper noun

翼 (hiragana つばさ, romaji Tsubasa)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

翼 (hangeul 익, revised ik, McCune-Reischauer ik, Yale ik)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

翼 (pinyin yì (yi4), Wade-Giles i⁴)

Compounds

• 意蔽
• 翼侧
• 翼翼

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Vietnamese

Han character

翼 (dực)