衫
shān HSK3

shirt

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 彡 represents the sound.

Components

衤
衤 Meaning component
yī clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

彡
彡 Sound component
shān, xiǎn hair

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsroːm
Unicodeshram

說文解字

《說文新附》：“衫，衣也。从衣，彡聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)