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衣
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- 衣
- yī · clothes, clothing; cover, skin; Kangxi radical 145
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1 · yi1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ji1 · ji3
Cantonese word readings for 衣. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- (upper) garment; clothes; clothing (Classifier: 件)
- coating; covering; skin
- (in compounds, archaic) lichen; bryophytes
- membrane; film
- (literary or dialectal) afterbirth; placenta
- a surname
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, literary) to dress; to wear; to put on clothes
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to cover; to place something over; to wrap up; to bind up
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 依 (yī, “to rely on”)
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