衤
yī

clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣, which is a pictograph of a shirt or coat.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (16 of 70 verified)

被补袖裕裤衫裸袍裙衬褐襟袜褂褪袱褥袄袒衹褶褚裆褛褴袂衲衩裱褡補褓襁袢裢裰袷裾裥褫裡裉衽裼衿裎袼裣褊褙袴襻複襦襢裀褵褲襫襪襖袟褸襯裇襠袯褟襤褳

Iconic (1 of 2 verified)

初裨

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

袮

說文解字

《說文》：“衣，依也。上曰衣，下曰裳。象覆二人之形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.663
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)