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花翎
huā​líng

peacock feather

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
花翎 huā​líng
peacock feather
(historical) a peacock feather worn on official caps during the Qing Dynasty to indicate rank; higher-ranking officials or those with special imperial favor were granted feathers with more 'eyes' (ocelli)

Frequency

Written text
0.156 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 个 gè
  • 支 zhī

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)