褱
huái

to carry in the bosom or the sleeve

Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 眔 represents the sound.

Components

衣
衣 Meaning component
yī clothes
眔
眔 Sound component
dà reach to
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2)

壞懷

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡruːl
ɡruːl

說文解字

《說文》：“褱，俠也。从衣，眔聲。一曰橐。”

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)