yīn
underclothing
Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 因 represents the sound. Originally written as 因, a pictograph of clothing surrounding a person.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7804th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+88C0 |
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