Example sentences

zhèhǎokàn

This clothing looks good.

lema

Are the clothes washed?

The story behind the character

The earliest 衣 is a jacket: collar, sleeves, lapels. Xu Shen wrote 衣, 依也. A garment, drawn out in full detail.

月 (here a boat) plus 𠬝 (sound). Xu Shen wrote 服, 用也, and it later came to mean clothing.

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