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はね

nounnoun (generic)

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Meanings

  • feather, plume, down
  • wing
  • blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.)
  • shuttlecock (in badminton)
  • shuttlecock (in hanetsuki)
  • arrow feathers
  • fifth degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale)

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Example sentences

とりはねはとてもかるい。

Bird feathers are very light.

かぜはねんでいった。

The feather was blown away by the wind.

この扇風機せんぷうきはねこわれてしまった。

The blade of this electric fan has broken.

子供こどもころはは羽根はねつきをしてあそんだ記憶きおくがある。

I have a memory of playing hanetsuki with my mother when I was a child.

その白鳥はくちょううつくしいはねひろげてみずうみうえ優雅ゆうがんだ。

The swan spread its beautiful wings and flew gracefully over the lake.