袂
sleeve of a robe
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,256 U+8882
How 袂 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
衤 (semantic, “clothes”) + 夬 (phonetic, guài)
components: 衤 夬
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 夬
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 夬 (guài) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夬 sound component | guài | decisive, certain; parted; fork |
| 缺 | quē | to lack, to be short; vacancy, gap, deficit |
| 块 | kuài | piece, lump, chunk; dollar; measure word for currency |
| 炔 | quē | acetylene |
| 鴂 | jué | tailorbird; working bird |
| 觖 | jué | to long for; to criticize; dissatisfied |
Words containing 袂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 投袂而起 | tóu mèi ér qǐ | lit. to shake one's sleeves and rise (idiom); fig. to get excited and move to action |
| 分袂 | fēn mèi | to leave each other; to part company |
| 联袂 | lián mèi | jointly; as a group; together |
| 连袂 | lián mèi | variant of 聯袂|联袂[lian2 mei4] |
| 把袂 | bǎ mèi | to have an intimate friendship |
| 判袂 | pàn mèi | (literary) (of two people) to separate; to part |
| 奋袂 | fèn mèi | to roll up one's sleeves for action |
| 攘袂 | rǎng mèi | to rise to action with a determined shake of the arms |
| 揄袂 | yú mèi | to walk with the hands in one's sleeves |