(yī) - clothes, clothing (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yīTraditional: 衣
Translation
clothes, clothing (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A pictographic character depicting a garment with a collar at the top and overlapping fabric below, hence clothes or clothing.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- pictograph of a garment with collar and sleeves
Stroke order
衣
Examples
。
I like this piece of clothing.
。
Your clothes look great.
，。
It is cold, wear more clothes.
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Her clothes were newly bought.
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His attire is very clean.
衣 (yī) means clothing and is bound; the everyday word is 衣服 (yīfu), with the second syllable in the neutral tone.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 衣.
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