羽
yǔ HSK5

feather

羽 yǔ
5th note noun
the fifth note in the traditional Chinese pentatonic scale

这首曲子的主音是羽，听起来有一种淡淡的忧伤。

zhè shǒu qǔ​zi de zhǔ​yīn shì yǔ, tīng qi​lai yǒu yī zhǒng dàn​dàn de yōu​shāng.

The tonic of this piece is 'Yu,' and it carries a faint sense of melancholy.

feather noun
a feather or the plumage of a bird

古人常在箭支的末端装饰彩色鸟羽。

gǔ​rén cháng zài jiàn​zhī de mò​duān zhuāng​shì cǎi​sè niǎo​yǔ.

Ancient people often decorated the ends of arrows with colorful bird feathers.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,865th most common 43.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,492nd most common 8.71 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.61 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
18.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+7FBD

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)