lán

ragged

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

監 sound component

  Sound component

jiānjiàn

  

watch carefully

Evolution

襤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
襤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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lán

ragged, tattered, threadbare; ragged garments

Most common words with 襤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

褴褛

ragged

ragged garments

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4288th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+8964

Shuowen

“襤,裯謂之襤。褸,襤,無緣也。从衣,監聲。”


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