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HSK
badminton / shuttlecock
HSK 5
down-filled garment
HSK 5
feather / plumage / plume
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feather / 5th note in pentatonic scale
Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor
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
wing / (fig.) assistant
down (soft feathers)
badminton / shuttlecock
Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama
armed escort
henchmen
battledore and shuttlecock / shuttlecock
to shed feathers / to molt (of birds)
feathered crest (of bird)
Haneda (one of the two main airports serving Tokyo)
pinion
(literary) (lit.) to cripple the wings of a bird / (literary) (fig.) depressed; despondent; defeated
Lu Yu (733-804), Chinese writer from Tang dynasty, known for his obsession with tea
the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩
tail feathers
birds
Kariba or Kariwa, Japanese name / Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟
to molt / to change feathers
badminton court
(idiom) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions
pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
Daoist priest
plume
camlet (silk fabric)
(bird species of China) demoiselle crane (Grus virgo)
fully fledged
lit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole
camlet (silk fabric)
quill
kale
(bird species of China) Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus)
International Badminton Federation
caudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur)
(idiom) to cherish one's reputation
radiation plume
Kashiwasaki Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟
feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus)
quill pen
alumen / alunite (TCM)
bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)
pinnation (splitting of leaves into lobes)
Indian mackerel
feathered


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