lapel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

婁 sound component

  Sound component

lóu

  

surname

Evolution

褸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
褸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lapel, collar; tattered, threadbare; soiled; tattered

Most common words with 褸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

褴褛

ragged

soiled

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4250th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8938

Shuowen

“褸,衽也。从衣,婁聲。”


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