Chinese

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Etymology 1

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gown; clothes
clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
 
simp. and trad.
(衣服)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (34) (3)
Final () (20) (4)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'j+j bjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨi/ /bɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨi/ /biuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiəi/ /biuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɨj/ /buwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔiəi/ /biuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ĭəi/ /bĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔe̯i/ /bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ji1 fuk6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjɨj › ‹ bjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔ(r)əj/ /*[b]ək/
English clothes garment; wear (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 14837 3366
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯl/ /*bɯɡ/
 
漢服:襖裙

Noun

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衣服

  1. clothing; clothes; laundry (Classifier: m)
    衣服穿上  ―  yīfu chuānshang  ―  to put on some clothes
    衣服  ―  yīfu  ―  to do the laundry
    衣服衣服  ―  shài yīfu  ―  to sun clothes
    衣服  ―  liàng yīfu  ―  to hang up the laundry
    衣服已經浸泡快點 [MSC, trad.]
    衣服已经浸泡快点 [MSC, simp.]
    Yīfú yǐjīng jìnpào hěn jiǔ le. Kuàidiǎn qù xǐ ba! [Pinyin]
    The clothes have been soaked for a long time. Quickly go wash them!
  2. (informal, proscribed) upper outer garment; jacket; coat
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  • (clothing):
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Sino-Xenic (衣服):

Etymology 2

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gown; clothes
clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
 
simp. and trad.
(衣服)

From (, “clothes”), a phono-semantic matching of English E (ecstasy).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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衣服

  1. (Taiwan, slang) ecstasy; MDMA (Classifier: m)
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Etymology 3

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to wear
clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
 
simp. and trad.
(衣服)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (34) (3)
Final () (20) (4)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'j+jH bjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨiH/ /bɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨiH/ /biuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiəiH/ /biuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɨjH/ /buwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔiəiH/ /biuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ĭəiH/ /bĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔe̯iH/ /bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ji3 fuk6

Verb

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衣服

  1. (Classical) to put on clothes (Should we delete(+) this sense?)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
ふく
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()(ふく) (ifuku (counter )

  1. clothing, clothes

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See also

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References

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  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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衣服 (uibok) (hangeul 의복)

  1. Hanja form? of 의복 (clothing, clothes).

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

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衣服

  1. chữ Hán form of y phục (clothes).