Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

羽: feathers, counter for birds, rabbits

JLPT N26 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
6 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Four readings, and the words that use each

ウu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 羽毛うもうfeathers, plumage, down
  • 羽化するうかするemerge (insects, etc.)

はha · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 羽衣はごろもangel's raiment
  • 羽音はおとbuzz, hum [n.]
  • 羽織はおりhaori (type of clothing)

わwa · kun'yomi

  • 一羽いちわone (bird)

はねhane · kun'yomi

  • 羽はねfeather, plume, wing

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)

Wings or feathers.

Source: Wiktionary, 羽 (rev. 92490451), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The base kanji for a single feather or the majestic wings of a bird, representing the tool for flight.”
From the 羽 feather story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Also read ウ

10 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yǔ

Same form: 羽 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
羽 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
羽 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yǔ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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