Japanese

はね
Meaning: wing, feather
Part of Speech: Noun

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Handwriting

羽

Example sentences

The bird spread its wings and flew off into the sky.
公園の池で、一羽の鳥が羽を休めていた。
At the park's pond, a single bird was resting its wings.
孔雀が庭で鮮やかな羽を広げ、来客を驚かす。
The peacock fanned out its vivid tail feathers in the garden and startled the guests.
その蝶の羽には美しい斑紋がある。
There are beautiful speckled patterns on that butterfly's wings.
朱鷺は美しい羽の色で知られる鳥だ
The crested ibis is a bird known for the color of its beautiful feathers.
阿呆鳥は羽を広げると非常に大きい。
Albatrosses are very large when they spread their wings.
万葉集には、鴨の羽のような色をした青馬の美しさが詠まれている。
The beauty of the 'aouma,' with its duck-feather-colored coat, is composed in the Man'yoshu.
形態学の授業で、学生は昆虫の羽の形を詳しく調べた。
In morphology class, the student examined the shape of an insect's wing in detail.

Usage Notes

Refers to both the whole wing and individual feathers of birds or insects.

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