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Kanji Detail for 翼 - "wing, fly, soar"
翼
- Meaning
翼 means "wing, fly, soar."
Wing - The left and right wings of birds or insects.
To help - To assist; to support; to protect.
Tomorrow - The next day.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
wing; plane; flank
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
wings; fins on fish; shelter; 27th lunar mansion, determinative star α Crateris (Alkes)
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Yi; alternative name for 絳|绛[Jiang4], the capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–475 BC)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
wings, fins; shelter
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Wings. Limbs on the left and right of birds and beasts on which feathers grow. Used for flying. Now the wings of flying insects are also called 翼. Such as 蟬翼 (cicada wings) and such. | To assist. Protecting from the side is called 翼. Such as 翼戴 (support). Meaning to assist. In old military organization divided into three armies, there were left and right wings. Also this meaning. | To nurture. When birds incubate eggs, it is called 翼. Such as 燕翼 (swallow's wings). Based on (Book of Odes). 卵翼 (egg-wing). Based on (Zuo Zhuan). Now planning for descendants is called 燕翼詒謀 (leaving plans for descendants like swallows for their young). Sheltering and nurturing is called 卵翼 (hatching and protecting). This is it. | Interchangeable with 翌. 翼日 means the next day. Now commonly written as 翌. | A star name. One of the twenty-eight mansions.
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