The Chinese Radical: 羽


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Meaning
feather    羽

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to practice, to study, habit

Shows half of feathers/wings
With only half wings, you especially have to practice.
JLPT HSK 4
to turn over, to flip over, to overturn
fān
Left: foreign (The modified rice [= rice with emphasis ] on the field is foreign.), right: wings
Foreign wings can turn over.
JLPT HSK 4
feather, plumage


Pictograph of feathers
JLPT HSK 5
fan, ventilator, with a hinge (door, window)
shān, shàn
Top: gate/door 戸, below: wings
Gates and wings are hinged like a fan.
JLPT HSK 5
wing, shark's fin
chì
Left: twig, support (With a twig in the hand , I am supporting.), right: wing
The twig-like wing stands for: wings or fins.
耀
JLPT HSK 6
brilliant, sparkle, glorious
yào
Left: light, ray (The fire on legs serves as light.), right: (wings , bird )
The light on the wings of the birds sparkles brilliant and glorious.
JLPT HSK 6
wing, flank, to assist

Top: wings , below: extraordinary, strange (field [here seen as the body of a bird], together ) [ is often simplified: 异]
The two wings at the body of the bird are together with it: The wings that assist.
JLPT HSK 6
to soar, to glide, to hover
xiáng
Left: sheep (The horned animal with a backbone and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep), right: wings
A sheep with wings can soar into the air.
JLPT HSK 6
collapse, to fall in ruins

Left: earth , right: sun , feather (here: to fly)
(Icarus and Daedalus) You will come back to earth, when you want (to reach) the sun, and your feathers: collapse.
JLPT HSK 6
to raise tail feather, outstanding, to rise on one end, to tilt
qiáo, qiào
Left: Emperor Tang Yao (vari. of halberd and table ), right: wing
With the halberd across the table, but from the wings only raised: the tail feathers.
JLPT HSK 6
step on, trample, to waste, wreck

Left: foot (knee cap and footprint ), right: Variant of: collapse 塌 (You will come back to earth , when you want (to reach) the sun with your flight , whereat you collapse. [HERE: with foot instead of earth ]
The foot will on something collapsed: trample on.
JLPT no HSK
bluish-green, green jade
cuì
Top: wings , below: soldier, suddenly (Between rotary discs , are soldiers who die suddenly.)
The wings (= uniforms) of the soldiers (between rotary disks) are bluish-green.
JLPT no HSK
onomat. buzz (of bees), hum, drone
wēng
Left: mouth , right: elderly man 翁 (Publicly wearing wings is sth. for elderly men)
(A sound) as if from a mouth, gets public by the wings, when: buzzing.
JLPT no HSK
surname Liao
liào
广
Left: building 广, right: sound of the wind (At feather or the beard you feel the wind.) [ = person with beard ]
In the building which rustles lives familie Liào.
JLPT no HSK
to jab, to poke, to stab, to blunt, to fuck (vulgar)
chuō
Left: feather of pheasant (feather and bird ), right: halberd
With a (pointed) feather of a bird or a halberd, you can jab or poke.
JLPT no HSK
writing brush, writing, pen
hàn
Left: 倝 (sunrise = The sun rises between plants ) [Sunset is: ], right: person , feather, wing
At sunrise the person takes the feather as writing brush.
JLPT no HSK
low bed, couch

Left: tree , right: sun (here: pillow) and wings/feathers (here: feather bed or comforter)
Made of wood, with a pillow, and a feather-bed (duvet): a bed or couch.
JLPT no HSK
elderly man, father
wēng
Top: public (eight noses form public), below: wings
Publicly wearing wings is sth. for elderly men.
JLPT no HSK
fan into a flame, incite
shān
Left: fire , right: fan, ventilator 扇 (Gates 戸 and wings are hinged like fans.)
At the fire you use a fan for inciting.
JLPT no HSK
empty, lonesome, very few
liáo
Top: roof , bottom: sound of the wind (At feather or the beard you feel the wind. [ = person with beard or warts/measles ])
If under the roof, the wind rustles, the building is empty.
JLPT no HSK
to fly, to flutter, spry, graceful
piān
Left: flat (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets are flat.), right: feathers, plumage
It is flat (like a door plate) or a feather, and is: fluttering.
JLPT no HSK
mu (Greek letter μ), to wind round, bind
miào, móu, miù
Left: thread 纟/, right: sound of the wind (At feather or the beard you feel the wind. [ = person with beard ])
A (freely hanging) thread can by the sound of the wind, wind around sth.
JLPT no HSK
to kill

Left: sound of the wind (At feather or the beard you feel the wind. [ = person with beard ]), right: halberd
Soundless like the wind is the halberd, when: killing!
JLPT no HSK
tail feathers, plume
líng
Left: order, command (A lid on the bent person, was ordered), right: wings
The commands (about the direction) give these wings: the tail feathers.
JLPT no HSK
ocean, vastness
hàn
Left: water , right: writing brush 翰 (At sunrise the person takes the feather as writing brush) Here: similar to tides: 潮 (Like a lake 湖 with changing directions [once old: and also mirrored] the tides=潮)
The waters of the tides, where the waves are like feathers : on the ocean.
JLPT no HSK
the next, the following, bright, tomorrow

Top: wings , bottom: to stand
(When a rooster crows in the morning, it first fluffs itself up.) Its feathers stand up (= deploy) to announce the next/following (day).
JLPT no HSK
vivid, lifelike, oak (Quercus serrata)

Left: tree , right: wing
The tree (moves) like a wing because it is: vivid.
JLPT no HSK
pleat, crease
zhě
Left: clothes 衤/, right: 習 (wing, feather /习 und weiß )
If the clothes have "white wings", they are: pleats.
JLPT no HSK
announce, make known, brag/boast, harmony, popular

Left: word (= sound waves out of a mouth ), right: feather
Words that spread like feathers are announcements.
JLPT no HSK
long-tail pheasant
dí, zhái
Top: feather , bottom: bird
These (special) feathers has this bird: the pheasant.

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