The Japanese Radical: 羽


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Meaning
wing    羽

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT 4Joyo 2
day of the week

Left: sun 日, right: 翟 (two wings 羽, bird 隹)
The sun on the wings of a bird: This happens every: day of the week.  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
learn, be taught, study
narau, SHŪ
Top: wings 羽, below: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white.)
Wings that are white are easy to study.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
wing, feather, bird counter
ha, hane, U

Pictograph of wings.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
the following, the next
YOKU
Top: wings 羽, bottom: to stand 立
(When a rooster crows in the morning, it first fluffs itself up.) Its feathers stand up (= deploy) to announce the next/following (day).  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
old man
okina, Ō
Top: public 公 (Eight 八 noses ム form the public.), below: wings 羽
Publicly wearing wings is sth. only for old men.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
(folding) fan
ōgi, aogu, SEN
Top: gate 戸, below: wings 羽
Gates and wings resemble folding fans.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
wash, rinse
TAKU
Left: water 氵, right: (Chinese only: to wash) 翟 (wings 羽, bird 隹)
With water it (becomes as clean) as the wings of a bird, when we are: washing.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
flutter, flap, change, turn over
hirugaeru/su, HON
Left: guard, watch 番 (The ripe rice plants [=禾+米] on the field 田 is numbered and needs to be guarded.), right: wings 羽
(At a glider plane) Watch the wings, if they flutter.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
leap, rush, jump, dance
odoru, YAKU
Left: foot 足 (kneecap 口 and a footprint 止), right: 翟 (wings 羽 and bird 隹)
With their feet and wings, birds make their leaps.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
wing
tsubasa, YOKU
Top: wings 羽, bottom: strange, dissimilar 異 (Put a rice paddy 田 together 共 (with other paddies) and you will see how strange they are.)
The two wings are strange but they are wings.  

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