裳
shang
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lower garment; skirts; petticoats; garments
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 衣 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 裳
- Common rank
- #4,063
- Unicode
- U+88F3
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 裳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衣裳钩儿 | clothes hook | |
| 衣裳 | (coll.) clothes | |
| 霓裳 | Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲[Ni2 chan… | |
| 霓裳 | nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尚 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尚 sound part | still, yet; even; fairly, rather | |
| 常 | common, general, normal; always, frequently, regularly | |
| 党 | political party, gang, faction | |
| 堂 | hall, large room; government office; cousins | |
| 掌 | in charge; the palm of the hand, the sole of the foot | |
| 赏 | reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant | |
| 尝 | to taste; to experience, to experiment with | |
| 躺 | to recline, to lie down | |
| 敞 | wide, open, spacious | |
| 棠 | crabapple tree; wild plum | |
| 趟 | time, occasion; to make a journey | |
| 倘 | if, supposing, in event of | |
| 淌 | to trickle down, to flow, to drip; to shed tears | |
| 惝 | alarmed, agitated | |
| 徜 | to linger, to walk back and forth | |
| 绱 | the sole of a shoe; to patch, to sole | |
| 䠀 | to meditate; to sit cross-legged | |
| 牚 | variant of 撐|撑[cheng1] |