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衣 (yī): meaning and stroke order

衣 (yī) means clothes, CL:件, Kangxi radical 145, to dress, to wear, to put on (clothes).

衣

Simplified
衣
Traditional
衣 (same form)
Pinyin
yī · yì

Stroke order of 衣

衣

  • yī clothes; CL:件[jian4]
  • yì to dress; to wear
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 衣

  1. yī
    • clothes
    • CL:件[jian4]
    • Kangxi radical 145
  2. yì
    • to dress
    • to wear
    • to put on (clothes)

Radical and structure

衣
Radical 衣 (Kangxi radical 145) · 6 strokes · 亠 on top, 𧘇 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 衣

衣 in our stories

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  • 第二天，雨停了，顾青走出庙门，回头一看，墙上的画里多了一个小小的白衣姑娘。

    dì-èr tiān yǔ tíng le Gù Qīng zǒu chū miào mén huítóu yí kàn qiáng shàng de huà lǐ duō le yí gè xiǎoxiǎo de bái yī gūniang

    The next day the rain had stopped. As Gu Qing left the temple he looked back: in the painting on the wall there was now a tiny girl in white.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

Stories using 衣

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).