CJK Unified Ideograph-7FC7

A ritual dance performed holding a whole feather.

Its first secure attestation is the Eastern Han Shuowen Jiezi, China's earliest character dictionary: a music-and-dance rite for Sheji, the soil and grain deities, danced while holding an un-split feather. It was never a general word for wings or flight.

The Zhouli, a classic of Zhou-era rites, writes the same ceremony as 帗舞 — silk radical instead of feather — and the Shuowen records that spelling; later lexicons repeat the gloss, and it never grew an everyday sense.

Will people understand 翇 in a message?

Usually not — read it as a classical reference.

A lone 翇 is most likely a request for identification, a quote from an old text, or a typo — ask what passage it came from and whether fú or pèi is meant.

As of 2026 it has no documented chat or emoji-style meaning; in ritual-text discussion, the surrounding passage carries the sense.