羽化

Traditional form:

羽化

Pinyin (reading):

yǔhuà

Definitions:

• 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

Characters:

• 羽 - feather, plume; wings
• 化 - to change, to convert, to reform; -ize

Traditional characters:

• 羽 - feather, plume; wings
• 化 - to change, to convert, to reform; -ize