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Radical 124a feather; plumage, wings

(third tone, dipping)

a feather; plumage, wings

Radical 1246 strokes0 characters

Where the shape comes from

A pair of feathers side by side, the fine barbs branching off the central shaft on each. A bird’s wing shown moving above 日 or 白 gives 习, to practice, to learn, from a fledgling beating its wings again and again over open ground before it can fly; and it names the wing directly in 翅, a wing, a fin.

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