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衣 |
clothes, to dress, to wear
Image of a shirt with neck, collar and below two sleeves. |
喂 |
hello (on telephone), to feed (i.e. animal)
Left: mouth 口, right: awe, reverence 畏 (.. because he has rice fields 田 and [good] clothes 衣) He was with the mouth in awe and said: "Hello" |
表 |
exterior surface, outside, to show (one's opinion)
Top: growing plant  , below: clothes 衣 Growing plants and clothes show at the surface. |
旅 |
journey, travel, trip
Left: square/direction 方, right: originally two persons 人 assembling under a banner  ; better: as a var. for clothes 衣 At the side of the banner are the clothes for: the journey. |
被 |
bedding, cover, quilt, by (passive)
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: skin/leather 皮 (hand 又 with a knife 丨 peeling the skin 厂.) (A large fur is meant.) A "clothing" of leather serves as bedding. |
裤 |
pants, trousers, drawers
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: warehouse 库 (If there is a vehicle 车/車 in a building 广, then in the warehouse.) Clothes for the warehouse are the pants. |
衫 |
shirt, gown, robe, jacket with open slits in place of sleeves
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: hair 彡 Clothing (warming) like hair, is: the shirt. |
裙 |
skirt
Left: cloths 衤/衣, right: monarch,master 君 (Here: hand  with needle ノ and circumferential closed 口 skirt [cross-sectional view]) This clothing made with a needle in a hand and is circumferentially closed: The skirt! |
衬 |
inner layer of garment, underwear, lining
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: skillful hand 寸 (For sewing) clothes you need a skillful hand if it is an inner layer or underwear. |
展 |
exhibition, to spread out, open up, prolong
From top: buttock seen from the side 尸, grass, plant 艹, var. of clothing 衣 For the buttocks they used grass to make clothings, and this should be in an exhibition. |
袋 |
bag, a pouch, sack, pocket
Top: generation 代 (The person 人 passes on the sabre 弋 to next generation.), below: clothing 衣 (Younger siblings must continue to wear the clothes until been worn out.) If already generations used these clothes, it looks like a sack! |
袜 |
socks, stockings
Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: end 末 (The top branch 一 of the tree 木 marks the end.) The clothes that are at the end (of the body) are the socks. |
裁 |
to cut out (as a dress), trim, reduce, decision, judgment
Top: ten 十, halberd 戈, bottom: clothing 衤/衣 For ten layers of clothes we use a halberd to cut it out. |
农 |
peasant, to farm, agriculture
Top: cover 冖, below: variant of clothing 衣 (Because he has to go out in all weathers) He has a side-extended cover on his clothing: the peasant! |
装 |
costume, clothing, pretend, install, equipment
Top: strong, robust 壮 (In the bed 丬 is the scholar 士 strong and robust) [丬=tree cut into half], below: clothing 衣 In the bed the scholar (recovered) and wears his clothings like a costume. |
补 |
to repair, to patch, to mend, supplement
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: fortune telling 卜 (here: image of a needle with a thread (cf. 针) For the clothing, take a needle to repair. |
滚 |
to boil (liquid), to roll, tumble
Left: water 氵, right: 衮 (six 六, nose 厶, clothes 衣) In the water are six noses and clothes that are boiling. |
依 |
to depend on, according to, rely on
Left: Person 人, right: clothing 衣 (Dress for success:) How the person dresses, it is depending on. |
初 |
at first, (at the) beginning, junior
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: sword 刀 He is wearing the clothes and the sword for the first time. |
裹 |
to bind, to wrap, a bundle, a parcel
Top and bottom: clothes 衤/衣, middle: fruit 果 (= the 'rice field' 田 at the tree 木) Within the clothes are the fruits wrapped as: a parcel! |
裔 |
descendants, ethnic (..chinese)
Top: clothes 衣, bottom: 冏 as a variant of sales/trade 商 (A vendor  standing behind a sales desk 冂/冏 with some goods 口) The cloths are sold for the descendants. |
裕 |
rich, abundant
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: valley 谷 (pictograph of a valley opening towards the plain) The clothing in this valley looks rich. |
裂 |
to tear, split, crack, to break open, to rend
Top: row 列 (wicked 歹 [= bar bone] is exposed with a knife刂 in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: clothing 衣 In a row (=direction of looming) clothes are teared. |
畏 |
awe, reverence, to fear, to dread
From top: field 田, Variation of clothing 衣 He has fields and (good) clothes: we are in awe. |
衷 |
inner feelings
Center: middle 中, rest: clothing 衣 In the middle of the clothes she hides her inner feelings. |
袭 |
to attack, to raid, invade, to inherit
Top: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a winding dragon ノ), bottom: cloths 衤/衣 If the dragon is at your cloths, it is an attack. |
袍 |
gown (lined), robe
Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: enwrap 包 (self 己 wrapped 勹) The cloth for being "enwrapped", is a gown. |
袖 |
sleeve, to tuck inside one's sleeve
Left: clothes/cloth 衤/衣, right: reason 由 (The seedling /sprout 丨 on the field 田 has its reason) If the cloth has something "sprouting" out (like a seedling 丨), it is: the sleeve. |
衰 |
to become weak, deteriorate, decline, wane
Sorrow, distress 哀 (in the clothing 衣 a big hole 口), dash 一, e.g. for a cut The distress about the cut made him weak. |
丧 |
mourn, mourning, funeral
Top: two bodies 丷 in the earth 土 (cf. gold 金), bottom: clothes 衣 When the two bodies come into the earth, you wear these clothes: to mourn at the funeral. |
裳 |
skirt, petticoat, lower garment
Top: esteem, to value 尚 (A small 小 house 宀 with a window 口 is furthermore esteemed.), below: cloth 衤/衣 An esteem clothing is the skirt. |
袱 |
bundle wrapped in cloth
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: subsue 伏 (A person 亻/人 is like a dog 犬, when it subdues.) With cloth a person can (carry) a dog, enwrapped as: a bundle. |
哀 |
sorrow, grief, pity, to lament, to condole
Top and bottom: clothing 衣, center: a big hole 口 Clothings with a central hole causes: sorrow. |
袁 |
long robe (old)
From top: earth 土, mouth 口 (here: sleeve), clothing 衣 Down to the ground reaches the sleeve 口 of this clothing: the long robe. |
襟 |
lapel, overlap of Chinese gown, heart, aspiration
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: prohibit, forbid 禁 (In the wood 林 a "Showing up 示" is forbidden, Or: Putting only twice wood 林 on the altar 示 (as a sacrifice) is: forbidden.) Clothings that is forbidden: are lapels. |
裘 |
fur, fur coat
Top: ask for, request 求 ([I'm dying of thirst:] Just one 一 drop 丶 of water 水, this is my: request!), bottom: clothing 衤/衣 (It's very cold:) I request clothing, namely: fur. |
襄 |
to help, to assist, assistance
From top: cover 亠, two pieces 口, well 井,cloth 衣 For covering 亠 both (=two pieces 口) wells 井 with cloth 衣, I need help! |
裴 |
surname Pei
Top: not, denial 非 (inverted wings 羽), bottom: clothing 衤/衣 The one who has no clothings, is: Mr. Péi. |
褂 |
coat, jacket, gown, ensheath
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: trigram 卦 (twice earth 圭 as fortune telling 卜 in trigram) Clothing in fortune telling can ensheath as a coat. |
猿 |
ape
Left: wild animal 犭, right: long robe (old) 袁 (Down to the ground 土 reaches the sleeve 口 of this clothing 衣: the long robe.) An animal in a long robe appears like: a monkey. |
褪 |
to take off (clothes), to fade
Left: cloths 衤/衣, right: to retreat, decline 退 (The movement 辶 is not good 艮 if it is a retreat) Cloths are 'retreated', when: taken off. |
褥 |
mattress
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: disgrace, dishonor 辱 (Having the plow 辰 in his skillful hands 寸 he understood as: disgrace.) For clothing it is a disgrace only serving as: a mattress. |
袄 |
coat, jacket, lined winter coat
Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: early death 夭 (here: heaven/sky 天) The cloth that is heavenly is used for the lined coat. |
亵 |
disrespectful, obscene, licentious
Top und down: cloth 衤(衣), middle: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.) Grasping someone's clothes [i.e. by hand a button 丸] is disrespectful. |
袅 |
delicate, graceful, curling
Top: vari. of bird 鸟/鳥 (= a bird with head, wings, and claws), bottom: cloths 衤 (With feather ornaments) If you use birds for clothing, you look: delicate and graceful. |
辗 |
roll over on side (in bed), roller
Left: vehicle 车/車, right: exhibition, to spread out 展 (For the buttocks 尸 they used grass 艹 to make clothings 衣, and this should be in an exhibition) With a vehicle the buttocks becomes (flat) like clothings, if you: roll over. |
褒 |
to praise, to honor, to commend
Top + below: clothing 衣, center: protect 保 (The person 亻builds a fence 口 over tree 木 to protect it) To preserve clothes is to be praised. |
袒 |
to bare
Left: cloths 衤/衣, right: sun rise 旦 (The sun 日 above the horizon 一) Stripping of the clothing, just as the sun exposes itself at sunrise, means: become bare. |
偎 |
to cuddle, embrace, fondle
Left: person 亻, right: awe/reverence 畏 (because he has rice fields 田 and (good) clothes 衣) (Don't jump all over your partner right away:) A person shows awe/respect when cuddling. |
碾 |
millstone, stone roller, to grind, crush, husk
Left: stone 石, right: to exhibit 展 (For the buttocks 尸 they used grass 艹 to make clothings 衣, and this should be in an exhibition) The stone that is (especially) exhibited is the millstone. |
褶 |
pleat, crease
Left: clothings 衤/衣, right: 習 (wing, feather 羽/习 und weiß 白) If the clothes have white wings, they are: pleats. |
褚 |
surname Chu
Left: clothings 衤/衣, right: person 者 (old man 耂 on the sun 日) This clothing as a person of family Chu. |
褐 |
coarse woolen cloth, dull, dark
Left: clothing 衤/衣, right: interrogation 曷 (=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner  at the interrogation.) The clothings at interrogations is of coarse woolen cloth. |
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