Example sentences
zhè这yī衣fú服hǎo好kàn看。
This clothing looks good.
yī衣fú服xǐ洗le了ma吗?
Are the clothes washed?
The story behind the character
衣
The earliest 衣 is a jacket: collar, sleeves, lapels. Xu Shen wrote 衣, 依也. A garment, drawn out in full detail.
服
月 (here a boat) plus 𠬝 (sound). Xu Shen wrote 服, 用也, and it later came to mean clothing.