Illustration: Beside a neighborhood river, a heron stands on a low concrete bank and stretches one wing fully outward. The long flight feathers spread in a clear fan, with the bend and attachment to the shoulder plainly visible. Its other wing remains folded neatly against its body.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

翼つばさ

tsubasa

wing

Example sentences

その鳥とりは翼つばさを広ひろげた。
The bird spread its wings.
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鳥とりは翼つばさで飛とぶ。
Birds fly with their wings.
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その鳥とりの翼つばさは折おれていた。
The bird’s wing was broken.
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Kanji in 翼

翼wing; planeOnヨクKunつばさ

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