襪 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

wà

socks

Components

衤 Meaning component

yī clothes

clothes

蔑 Sound component

miè disdain

Change in sound

襪 and 蔑 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
襪 miæt
蔑 met

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		mad
Unicode	miæt

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 末 represents the sound. Simplified form of 襪.

衤 Meaning component

yī clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

末 Sound component

mò end

Change in sound

袜 and 末 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
袜 maːd
末 *mˤat

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	maːd