In old texts the character 'hui' is a brightly colored pheasant.
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翬 is not used in modern Chinese; the simplified form is 翚. It names a many-colored pheasant and, by extension, swift bright flight, famous from the 《诗经》 phrase comparing palace eaves to a pheasant taking wing. The feather radical 羽 marks the bird-and-flight sense; 军 supplies the sound.
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Archaic and literary. You will meet 翬 only in classical text and etymology notes, never in modern speech.
