Chinese

衣服

yīfu
clothing; clothes; laundry (Classifier: 件 m)
  • HSK 1
  • TOCFL 2

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Origin

From 衣 (yī, “clothes”), a phono-semantic matching of English E (“ecstasy”).

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Lineage

  • characterChinese衣 “garment; clothes; clothing (Classifier: 件)”
  • characterChinese服 “clothes; garment; dress”
    • meaningChinese凡 “in general; every, all, any; indicates that the statement applies generally, to all cases.”
    • soundChinese𠬝 “to subdue”
      • ideaChinese卩 “kneeling person”
      • ideaChinese又 “again; once more”
  • borrowedEnglishE “The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.”
    • derivedMiddle Englishand
      • inheritedOld Englishand
      • derivedMiddle Englishfive
    • borrowedMandarin鄂
    • borrowedMandarin誒
      • derivedEɛ⁵⁵

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