羽
← 123 Radical 124 (U+2F7B) 125 →
羽 (U+7FBD) "feather"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	yǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄩˇ
Wade–Giles:	yu3
Cantonese Yale:	yu5
Jyutping:	jyu5
Japanese Kana:	ウ u (on'yomi) はね hane (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	우 u
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 羽字旁 yǔzìpáng (Top) 羽字頭/羽字头 yǔzìtóu (Bottom) 羽字底 yǔzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	羽/はね hane
Hangul:	깃 git
Stroke order animation

Radical 124 or radical (羽部) meaning "feather" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 220 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

羽 is also the 147th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Variant forms

• 
  Traditional printing form of 羽 in the Kangxi Dictionary
• 
  The most common written form of 羽 in regular script
• 
  Regular script imitating the printing form

Traditionally, this radical character is printed as 羽 and written as 羽.

In modern Chinese, both the standard printing form and writing form of this character have been altered to 羽, though the more traditional printing form 羽 is still seen in some Traditional Chinese publication.

In modern Japanese, the Kangxi form (old form) and the written form (new form) are encoded separately in JIS and Unihan (New 羽: U+7FBD; Old 羽: U+FA1E). The new form is used in jōyō kanji while the old form is used in hyōgai kanji, with the exception that in 曜, 耀 and 燿, the component 羽 is replaced by ヨヨ.

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a second grade kanji^[1]