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习 |
to practice, to study, habit
Shows half of feathers/wings 羽
With only half wings, you especially have to practice. |
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翻 |
to turn over, to flip over, to overturn
Left: foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [= rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.), right: wings 羽
Foreign wings can turn over. |
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羽 |
feather, plumage
Pictograph of feathers |
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扇 |
fan, ventilator, with a hinge (door, window)
Top: gate/door 戸, below: wings 羽
Gates and wings are hinged like a fan. |
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翅 |
wing, shark's fin
Left: twig, support 支 (With a twig 十 in the hand 又, I am supporting.), right: wing 羽
The twig-like wing stands for: wings or fins. |
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耀 |
brilliant, sparkle, glorious
Left: light, ray 光 (The fire 火 on legs 儿 serves as light.), right: 翟 (wings 羽, bird 隹)
The light on the wings of the birds sparkles brilliant and glorious. |
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翼 |
wing, flank, to assist
Top: wings 羽, below: extraordinary, strange 異 (field 田 [here seen as the body of a bird], together 共) [異 is often simplified: 异]
The two wings at the body 田 of the bird are together with it: The wings that assist. |
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翔 |
to soar, to glide, to hover
Left: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep), right: wings 羽
A sheep with wings can soar into the air. |
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塌 |
collapse, to fall in ruins
Left: earth 土, right: sun 日, feather 羽 (here: to fly)
(Icarus and Daedalus) You will come back to earth, when you want (to reach) the sun, and your feathers: collapse. |
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翘 |
to raise tail feather, outstanding, to rise on one end, to tilt
Left: Emperor Tang Yao 尧 (vari. of halberd 戈 and table  ), right: wing 羽 With the halberd across the table, but from the wings only raised: the tail feathers. |
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蹋 |
step on, trample, to waste, wreck
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: Variant of: collapse 塌 (You will come back to earth 土, when you want (to reach) the sun 日 with your flight 羽, whereat you collapse. [HERE: with foot 足 instead of earth 土]
The foot will on something collapsed: trample on. |
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翠 |
bluish-green, green jade
Top: wings 羽, below: soldier, suddenly 卒 (between rotary discs 亠,十 are soldiers 人 who die suddenly.)
The wings (= uniforms) of the soldiers (between rotary disks) are bluish-green. |
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嗡 |
onomat. buzz (of bees), hum, drone
Left: mouth 口, right: elderly man 翁 (Publicly 公 wearing wings 羽 is sth. for elderly men)
(A sound) as if from a mouth, gets public by the wings, when: buzzing. |
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廖 |
surname Liao
Left: building 广, right: sound of the wind 翏 (At feather 羽 or the beard 㐱 you feel the wind.) [㐱 = person 人 with beard 彡]
In the building which rustles lives familie Liào. |
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戳 |
to jab, to poke, to stab, to blunt, to fuck (vulgar)
Left: feather of pheasant 翟 (feather 羽 and bird 隹), right: halberd 戈
With a (pointed) feather of a bird or a halberd, you can jab or poke. |
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翰 |
writing brush, writing, pen
Left: 倝 (sunrise  = The sun 日 rises between plants 艹) [Sunset is: 莫], right: person 人, feather, wing 羽 At sunrise the person takes the feather as writing brush. |
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榻 |
low bed, couch
Left: tree 木, right: sun 日 (here: pillow) and wings/feathers 羽 (here: feather bed or comforter)
Made of wood, with a pillow, and a feather-bed (duvet): a bed or couch. |
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翁 |
elderly man, father
Top: public 公 (eight 八 noses 厶 form public), below: wings 羽
Publicly wearing wings is sth. for elderly men. |
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煽 |
fan into a flame, incite
Left: fire 火, right: fan, ventilator 扇 (Gates 戸 and wings 羽 are hinged like fans.)
At the fire you use a fan for inciting. |
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寥 |
empty, lonesome, very few
Top: roof 宀, bottom: sound of the wind 翏 (At feather 羽 or the beard 㐱 you feel the wind. [㐱 = person 人 with beard 彡 or warts/measles 彡])
If under the roof, the wind rustles, the building is empty. |
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翩 |
to fly, to flutter, spry, graceful
Left: flat 扁 (Sliding doors 戸 and writing tablets 冊 are flat.), right: feathers, plumage 羽
It is flat (like a door plate) or a feather, and is: fluttering. |
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缪 |
mu (Greek letter μ), to wind round, bind
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: sound of the wind 翏 (At feather 羽 or the beard 㐱 you feel the wind. [㐱 = person 人 with beard 彡])
A (freely hanging) thread can by the sound of the wind, wind around sth. |
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戮 |
to kill
Left: sound of the wind 翏 (At feather 羽 or the beard 㐱 you feel the wind. [㐱 = person 人 with beard 彡]), right: halberd 戈
Soundless like the wind is the halberd, when: killing! |
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翎 |
tail feathers, plume
Left: order, command 令 (A lid  on the bent person卩, was ordered), right: wings 羽 The commands (about the direction) give these wings: the tail feathers. |
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瀚 |
ocean, vastness
Left: water 氵, right: writing brush 翰 (At sunrise the person 人 takes the feather 羽 as writing brush) Here: similar to tides: 潮 (Like a lake 湖 with changing directions [once old: 古 and also mirrored] the tides=潮)
The waters of the tides, where the waves 人 are like feathers 羽: on the ocean. |
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翌 |
the next, the following, bright, tomorrow
Top: wings 羽, below: stand 立
The wings are standing up, what comes next? |
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栩 |
vivid, lifelike, oak (Quercus serrata)
Left: tree 木, right: wing 羽
The tree (moves) like a wing because it is: vivid. |
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褶 |
pleat, crease
Left: clothings 衤/衣, right: 習 (wing, feather 羽/习 und weiß 白)
If the clothes have white wings, they are: pleats. |
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诩 |
announce, make known, brag/boast, harmony, popular
Left: word 讠(=言 sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: feather 羽
Words that spread like feathers are announcements. |
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翟 |
long-tail pheasant
Top: feather 羽, bottom: bird 隹
These (special) feathers has this bird: the pheasant. |
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