Keyword
wing
- wings
- fins
- Frequency
- #2498
- Strokes
- 10
Readings
chì
Mnemonic
羽 (wings) gives the meaning and 支 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
翅膀
wing
翅
(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
展翅
to spread wings
鸡翅
chicken wing
鱼翅
shark fin
鳞翅目
Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶类 and moths 蛾类)
鞘翅目
Coleoptera (insect order including beetles)
双翅目
Diptera (insect order including flies)
膜翅目
Hymenoptera (insect order including ants and bees)
展翅高飞
to spread one's wings and soar (idiom); to develop one's abilities freely
翅子
shark's fin; wing
直翅目
Orthoptera (insect order including grasshoppers, crickets and locusts)
插翅难飞
lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
金翅雀
(bird species of China) grey-capped greenfinch (Chloris sinica)
半翅目
Hemiptera (suborder of order Homoptera, insects including cicadas and aphids)
同翅目
Homoptera (insect suborder including cicadas, aphids, plant-hoppers, shield bugs etc)
鸡翅木
wenge or wengue (type of wood)
鞘翅
elytrum (hardened forewing of Coleoptera beetle, encasing the flight wing)