| 羽 | yǔ | feather; 5th note in pentatonic scale |
| 羽毛 | yǔ máo | feather; plumage; plume |
| 党羽 | dǎng yǔ | henchmen |
| 换羽 | huàn yǔ | to molt; to change feathers |
| 羽毛球 | yǔ máo qiú | shuttlecock; badminton; CL:个 |
| 羽化 | yǔ huà | levitation (of Daoist immortal); to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven; (in Daoism) to become immortal; to die; of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form; eclosion |
| 项羽 | Xiàng Yǔ | Xiangyu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor |
| 刈羽 | Yì yǔ | Kariba or Kariwa, Japanese name; Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟 |
| 国际羽毛球联合会 | Guó jì Yǔ máo qiú Lián hé huì | International Badminton Federation |
| 威凤一羽 | wēi fèng yī yǔ | lit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole |
| 宫商角徵羽 | gōng shāng jué zhǐ yǔ | pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la |
| 尾羽 | wěi yǔ | tail feathers |
| 尾羽龙 | wěi yǔ lóng | caudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur) |
| 放射性烟羽 | fàng shè xìng yān yǔ | radiation plume |
| 板羽球 | bǎn yǔ qiú | battledore and shuttlecock; shuttlecock |
| 柏崎刈羽 | Bǎi qí Yì yǔ | Kashiwasaki Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟 |
| 羽冠 | yǔ guān | feathered crest (of bird) |
| 羽客 | yǔ kè | Daoist priest |
| 羽林 | yǔ lín | armed escort |
| 羽毛球场 | yǔ máo qiú chǎng | badminton court |
| 羽毛笔 | yǔ máo bǐ | quill pen |
| 羽毛缎 | yǔ máo duàn | camlet (silk fabric) |
| 羽流 | yǔ liú | plume |
| 羽状复叶 | yǔ zhuàng fù yè | bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy) |
| 羽田 | Yǔ tián | Haneda airport, Tokyo |
| 羽绒 | yǔ róng | down (soft feathers) |
| 羽缎 | yǔ duàn | camlet (silk fabric) |
| 羽翼丰满 | yǔ yì fēng mǎn | fully fledged |
| 羽茎 | yǔ jīng | quill |
| 羽裂 | yǔ liè | pinnation (splitting of leaves into lobes) |
| 羽鳃鲐 | yǔ sāi tái | Indian mackerel |
| 脱羽 | tuō yǔ | to shed feathers; to molt (of birds) |
| 身披羽毛 | shēn pī yǔ máo | feathered |
| 铩羽而归 | shā yǔ ér guī | to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions (idiom) |
| 关羽 | Guān Yǔ | Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty; posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama |
| 鸟羽 | niǎo yǔ | pinion |
| 鸩羽 | zhèn yǔ | the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鸩 |
| 羽绒服 | yǔ róng fú | down garment |
