What 翼 means
A wing can shelter or support what is beside it.
Oracle-bone inscriptions (on bones or shells) and bronze forms depict a wing. Later forms use 羽 (“feathers/wings”) for meaning and 異 as a sound hint. The wing sense extended to flanks, shelter, and help.
Who writes 翼
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-7Fbd
羽 supplies the feather/wing meaning in later forms of 翼.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7Fcc
Early Chinese writing borrowed 翼 for 翌 (“the next day”); 日 marks 翌’s time sense. They are distinct characters.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7Fca
Early forms of 翊 used 翼 as a sound element; 翊 was also borrowed for 翌 (“the next day”).
Combination ideas
2right flank; also the political right wing.
an aircraft’s main wing.
Questions people ask
1Can 翼 look different on another device?
Yes. As of 2026, device fonts may draw its strokes differently; it remains the same character.
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How to type or find 翼
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- 翼 meaning · 翼 Chinese · 翼 Japanese · tsubasa · yoku · 右翼 · 主翼
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
翼CSS
\7FFCCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
翼
HTML hex
翼
CSS content
content: "\7FFC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%BF%BC
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.