liǎn, chān draw one's hands into sleeve Simplified

Components

Meaning component
clothes

cloth

Sound component
qiān together

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rèn lapel

Components

Meaning component
clothes

clothes

Sound component
rén 9th heavenly stem

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnyimXn[ə]mʔskirts of robe, flaps; lapel
nyimHn[ə]mʔ-sskirts of robe, flaps; lapel
Zhengzhangnjɯms

說文解字

衣䘳也。从衣壬聲。

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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

draw one's hands into sleeve Traditional

No origin information available for this character yet.

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