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羽

yǔ

HSK 4 Character

What 羽 means

1. feather
2. 5th note in pentatonic scale

Example sentences

• 我的被子是羽绒的。
  My quilt is made of down.
• 他尝了尝羽衣甘蓝。
  He tasted the kale.
• 乌鸫的羽毛是黑色的。
  The blackbirds' feathers are black.
• 我们今天吃羽衣甘蓝。
  We're having curly kale today.
• 我感觉像羽毛一样轻飘。
  Wǒ gǎnjué xiàng yǔmáo yīyàng qīng piāo.
  I felt light as a feather.
• 他们常在这儿打羽毛球。
  They play badminton here often.

Words starting with 羽

• 羽毛球yǔ máo qiúbadminton; shuttlecock
• 羽绒服yǔ róng fúdown jacket; down coat
• 羽毛yǔ máofeather; plumage; plume
• 羽翼yǔ yìwing; (fig.) assistant
• 羽绒yǔ róngdown (soft feathers)
• 羽冠yǔ guānfeathered crest (of bird)
• 羽化yǔ huàlevitation (of Daoist immortal); to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven…
• 羽客yǔ kèDaoist priest
• 羽族yǔ zúbirds
• 羽林yǔ línarmed escort
• 羽流yǔ liúplume
• 羽涅yǔ nièalumen; alunite (TCM)
• 羽球yǔ qiúbadminton; shuttlecock
• 羽田Yǔ tiánHaneda (one of the two main airports serving Tokyo)
• 羽裂yǔ lièpinnation (splitting of leaves into lobes)
• 羽毛笔yǔ máo bǐquill pen
• 羽毛球场yǔ máo qiú chǎngbadminton court
• 羽状复叶yǔ zhuàng fù yèbipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)
• 羽翼丰满yǔ yì fēng mǎnfully fledged
• 羽衣甘蓝yǔ yī gān lánkale
• 羽茎yǔ jīngquill
• 羽缎yǔ duàncamlet (silk fabric)
• 羽毛缎yǔ máo duàncamlet (silk fabric)
• 羽尾袋鼯yǔ wěi dài wúfeathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus)

Words containing 羽

• 关羽Guān YǔGuan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three…
• 项羽Xiàng YǔXiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor
• 陆羽Lù YǔLu Yu (733-804), Chinese writer from Tang dynasty, known for his obsession with tea
• 尾羽wěi yǔtail feathers
• 换羽huàn yǔto molt; to change feathers
• 脱羽tuō yǔto shed feathers; to molt (of birds)
• 鸟羽niǎo yǔpinion
• 党羽dǎng yǔhenchmen
• 尾羽龙wěi yǔ lóngcaudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur)
• 板羽球bǎn yǔ qiúbattledore and shuttlecock; shuttlecock
• 爱惜羽毛ài xī yǔ máo(idiom) to cherish one's reputation
• 身披羽毛shēn pī yǔ máofeathered
• 放射性烟羽fàng shè xìng yān yǔradiation plume
• 宫商角徵羽gōng shāng jué zhǐ yǔpre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do…
• 卷羽鹈鹕juǎn yǔ tí hú(bird species of China) Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus)
• 蓑羽鹤suō yǔ hè(bird species of China) demoiselle crane (Grus virgo)
• 刈羽Yì yǔKariba or Kariwa, Japanese name; Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near…
• 柏崎刈羽Bǎi qí Yì yǔKashiwasaki Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟
• 鸩羽zhèn yǔthe poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鸩
• 铩羽shā yǔ(literary) (lit.) to cripple the wings of a bird; (literary) (fig.) depressed…
• 铩羽而归shā yǔ ér guī(idiom) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions
• 威凤一羽wēi fèng yī yǔlit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole
• 国际羽毛球联合会Guó jì Yǔ máo qiú Lián hé huìInternational Badminton Federation

Characters that look like 羽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 利lìsharp; favorable; advantage
• 助zhùto help; to assist
• 刑xíngpunishment; penalty; sentence
• 丽lìbeautiful
• 删shānto delete
• 抠kōuto dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed); to carve; to cut…

Sounds the same

Read yǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 与(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with…
• 语dialect; language; speech
• 雨rain
• 屿islet
• 予(literary) to give
• 宇room; universe
• 禹Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods; surname Yu
• 瑀(chalcedony)
• 圄prison; to imprison
• 敔percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the…
• 俣big
• 龉used in 龃龉