The Chinese characters 习 meaning is practice.

This ideogram combines wings (羽) with self (自), contraction of (自), suggesting a young bird learning to fly by itself. Copying the bird, man also tries to fly by speeding up the simplification of the original intricate Chinese character, using only one wing for “practice”: 习. Woe betides the bird that copies man!

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