裸袒
luǒ​tǎn

naked

裸 luǒ bare

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 果 represents the sound. Simplified form of 臝.

Components

衤
衤 Meaning component
yī clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

果
果 Sound component
guǒ fruit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartlwaX[r]ˤo[r]ʔbare, naked
Zhengzhangɡ·roːlʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

袒 tǎn strip

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 旦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 襢.

Components

衤
衤 Meaning component
yī clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

旦
旦 Sound component
dàn dawn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdaːnʔ
rdeːns

說文解字

衣縫解也。从衣旦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)