衣

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 衤 (when used as a left Radical)

Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

衣 (radical 145 衣+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹女 (YHV), four-corner 0073₂)

1. clothes, clothing, cover(s), outer layers
2. skin, (animal) hide, pelt, fur(s)

Descendants

• え

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/衣
• 初 依

Related characters

• 𧘇 展

See also

• 𠂢 乑

References

• KangXi: page 1111, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34091
• Dae Jaweon: page 1575, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3074, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8863

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Cantonese

Hanzi

衣 (Yale yi1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

衣 (POJ yi, Guangdong ji¹; j¹, j⁵ [Meixian], zi¹ [Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim yi1, yi4)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

衣 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: い (i), え (e)
• Kun: ころも (koromo), きる (kiru)

Compounds

• 浴衣

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Korean

Hanja

衣
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 의 (revised: ui, McCune-Reischauer: ŭi, Yale: uy)

• Name (hangeul): 옷 의()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

衣 (pinyin yī (yi1), Wade-Giles i¹)

Compounds

• 衣服

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Vietnamese

Han character

衣 (y, ấy, e, ỵ)