翅 — Chinese character
翅
chì
wings; fins
- Pinyin
- chì
- Radical
- 124 ⽻ (Feather)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 支 羽
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wings; meaning component 羽; sound component 支
- Japanese
- 翅 as a kanji
Common words with 翅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 翅膀 | chì bǎng | wing; 只 (zhī),对 (duì) |
| 展翅 | zhǎn chì | to spread wings |
| 鸡翅 (雞翅) | jī chì | chicken wing |
| 鱼翅 (魚翅) | yú chì | shark fin |
| 鳞翅目 (鱗翅目) | lín chì mù | Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类) |
| 鞘翅目 | qiào chì mù | Coleoptera (insect order including beetles) |
| 双翅目 (雙翅目) | shuāng chì mù | Diptera (insect order including flies) |
| 膜翅目 | mó chì mù | Hymenoptera (insect order including ants and bees) |
| 展翅高飞 (展翅高飛) | zhǎn chì gāo fēi | to spread one's wings and soar (idiom); to develop one's abilities freely |
| 翅子 | chì zi | shark's fin; wing |
| 直翅目 | zhí chì mù | Orthoptera (insect order including grasshoppers, crickets and locusts) |
| 插翅难飞 (插翅難飛) | chā chì nán fēi | lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape |
English words written with 翅
翅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.