羽

Meaning

1. n
   feather; plume; down
2. n
   wing
3. n
   blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.)
4. n
   shuttlecock (in badminton)
5. n
   shuttlecock (in hanetsuki)
6. n
   arrow feathers
7. ctr
   counter for birds or rabbits
8. n
   fifth degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale)

Example sentences

• そのうちの２、３羽が巣から押し出され、さらにベランダからも落ちてしまった。

  Of those 2 or 3 were pushed out of the nest, and then fell down from the balcony as well.

• 羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。

  The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.

• ひとの声に似た不気味な鳴き声、漆黒の羽、死肉を啄む姿などから、鴉は不幸に舞い降りる不吉な鳥として世界に知られています。

  A creepy cry that sounds like a human voice, velvet black wings, the image of tearing into dead flesh; crows are known across the world as an ill-omened bird that flies down with ill-luck.