Chinese Character Wiki

衽

rèn

lapel

Components
衤 meaning component

衤  Meaning component

yī

  

clothes

clothes

壬 sound component

壬  Sound component

rén

  

9th heavenly stem

Evolution

衽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
衽 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
衽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

衽  

rèn

lapel; hidden lapel of coat; (literary) overlapping part of Chinese gown; sleeping mat

衽 (袵) 

rèn

variant of 衽[rèn]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n[ə]mʔ

nyimX

rèn

skirts of robe, flaps; lapel

*n[ə]mʔ-s

nyimH

rèn

skirts of robe, flaps; lapel


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5736th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+887D

Shuowen

“衽，衣也。从衣，壬聲。”


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