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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *毛* | 毛* | *毛
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen )
HSK 1
Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲 or 霓裳羽衣舞
(idiom) (pejorative) as detestable as each other; birds of a feather; cut from the same cloth
lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom) / fig. few and far between
lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom) / fig. trivial (matter)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *秃* | 秃* | *秃
bald (lacking hair or feathers) / barren; bare; denuded / blunt (lacking a point) / (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something
HSK 7-9
Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling gift with a weighty thought behind it / also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling / unimportant
to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)
lit. there are principles behind making money (idiom); fig. to have a knack for good business / knowing how to accumulate wealth / good at feathering one's own nest
similar things come together (idiom); like draws like / Birds of a feather flock together.
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
to share vile habits / partners in notoriety / birds of a feather
keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
goose feather
to molt / to change feathers
to gain from corrupt dealing / to engage in graft / to feather one's nest
to molt (of birds) / to change feathers
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翁* | 翁* | *翁
elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old)
lit. seeing clearly the downy feathers of autumn (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. perceptive of even the finest detail
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom) / fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it / also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
chicken feather / CL: / trivial
feather / plumage / plume
goose feather snow (idiom) / big heavy snow fall
feather / plume / plumage / CL:
a simple inn with only chicken feathers to sleep on
peacock feathers on an official's hat displaying his rank (traditional) / pheasant tail feathers on warriors' helmets (opera)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *褪* | 褪* | *褪
to take off (clothes); to shed (feathers) / (of color) to fade / (fig.) (of emotions, awareness etc) to fade / Taiwan pr. [tun4]
light as a feather
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挦* | 挦* | *挦
to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text)
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
tail feathers
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翿* | 翿* | *翿
feather banner or fan
levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
feathered crest (of bird)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翳* | 翳* | *翳
feather screen / to screen / to shade / cataract
feather cockscomb (Celosia argentea)
feathered
caudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur)
to lose hair or feathers / to molt / depilation / to shave
lit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole
lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose / fig. to seize any opportunity / pragmatic
cotton-padded shoes / (old) shoes made of woven grass, padded with feathers
light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *羽* | 羽* | *羽
feather / 5th note in pentatonic scale
to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
feather cockscomb (Celosia argentea)
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  *鸩* | 鸩* | *鸩
legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison / poisonous / to poison sb
down (soft feathers)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *菼* | 菼* | *菼
Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Amur silvergrass) / Miscanthus sinensis (feather grass)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翎* | 翎* | *翎
tail feathers / plume
the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *纛* | 纛* | *纛
big banner / feather banner or fan
to shed feathers / to molt (of birds)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *葙* | 葙* | *葙
see 青葙, feather cockscomb (Celosia argentea)
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  *佡* | 佡* | *佡
variant of , immortal / light (as a feather)


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