翹 — 18 strokes / Radical「羽」
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- On
- ギョウぎょう · gyō
- Kun
- あ.げる・つまだ.てるa.geru · tsumada.teru
- Meaning
- to raise up; outstanding
Stroke order
Origin
Feather 羽 with 堯 as phonetic: a bird lifting its tail feathers high; by extension, outstanding.
Compounds
- 翹望ぎょうぼう
eager expectation
- 翹楚ぎょうそ
an outstanding person
Example
世の翹望を集める。
They draw the eager hopes of the world.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)