feather; 5th note in pentatonic scale

Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor

wing; (fig.) assistant

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

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

henchmen

tail feathers

to molt; to change feathers

feathered crest (of bird)

Daoist priest

birds

armed escort

plume

alumen; alunite (TCM)

badminton; shuttlecock

Haneda (one of the two main airports serving Tokyo)

down (soft feathers)

camlet (silk fabric)

quill

pinnation (splitting of leaves into lobes)

to shed feathers; to molt (of birds)

(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

pinion

the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆|鸩

caudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur)

battledore and shuttlecock; shuttlecock

quill pen

camlet (silk fabric)

down jacket; down coat

Indian mackerel

(bird species of China) demoiselle crane (Grus virgo)

(bird species of China) Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus)

lit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole

Kashiwasaki Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟

(idiom) to cherish one's reputation

feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus)

badminton court

bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)

fully fledged

kale

feathered

(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

radiation plume

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