chèn

inner garment

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

寸 simplified component

  Simplified component

cùn

  

(hand), inch

Shorthand for the component in the traditional character .

Evolution

衬 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
衬 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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chèn

underwear; inner garments; (of garments) against the skin; to line; lining; to contrast with; to assist financially

Most common words with 衬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

衬衫

shirt

衬衣

shirt

to line

衬托

to set off

映衬

antithesis

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 14.0477% of movies

1751st most common character in movies

2502nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+886C


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