羽

はね · hane · JLPT N3 · noun

wing

🪽🪶 羽 is two feathers side by side; hane sounds like honey, sweet wings

羽 started as a pictograph of two bird feathers, so a pair of feathers stands for a wing. You also see it in 翼 (wing) and 習 (to learn), where young birds practise beating their wings. For the reading, hane sounds like honey.

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