Chinese Character Wiki

袂

mèi

sleeves

Components
衤 meaning component

衤  Meaning component

yī

  

clothes

clothes

夬 sound component

夬  Sound component

guài

  

parted, decisive

Evolution

袂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
袂 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
袂 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
袂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

袂  

mèi

sleeves; sleeve of a robe

Most common words with 袂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

联袂

jointly

袂

sleeve of a robe

连袂

jointly

攘袂

to rise to action with a determined shake of the arms

奋袂

to roll up one's sleeves for action

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.mˤet (dialect: *k.m- > MC kw-)

kwet

mèi

sleeve

*k.met-s

mjiejH

mèi

sleeve


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4479th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8882

Shuowen

“袂，袖也。从衣，夬聲。”


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