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Meaning of 翮

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Pinyin:
English Definition: quill
Chinese Definition:
①鸟翎的茎,翎管。
②鸟的翅膀:举翮。振翮高飞。
Total strokes: 16; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (feather) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
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    • [ ] earthen pot, iron cauldron
    • [ ] feather, plume; wings
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Example Words
金天翮 jīn tiān Jin Tianhe (1874-1947), late Qing poet and novelist, author of Flower in the sea of evil 孽海花
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Example Sentences
1
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
2
" Such as the Southern Shen Yue, "Xi Wen Night Crane OK": "Nine negative winter frost, the six-he did not fly either.
3
This stage produced a tuft of barbs fused to the hollow cylinder, or calamus .
4
Eventually, dense rows of interlocking barbs formed a flat surface: the basic blueprint of the so-called pennaceous feathers of modern birds.
5
At the base of the feather, the rachis expands to form the hollow tubular calamus, or quill, which inserts into a follicle in the skin.