羽 (hane) means “feather” | MotiTan Japanese Dictionary

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公園で白い羽を一枚拾いました。kō en de shiro i hane o ichi mai hiro i ma shi ta

I picked up a white feather in the park.

It centers on a light body covering or flight structure that helps a bird move through the air.

羽毛umō: The soft covering of feathers on a bird, considered as a whole.

鳥などの体を覆う軽くて薄い毛や、飛ぶために体についた器官。tori na do no karada o ō u karu ku te usu i ke ya to bu ta me ni karada ni tsu i ta ki kan

羽 (hane) is a native Japanese word rather than a borrowed term, and the kanji 羽 was adopted to write its established meaning of "feather" or "wing".

The phrase 羽を伸ばす (hane o nobasu) literally means "stretch one's wings" and commonly describes relaxing freely after a period of restraint.