shān
noun #6,888

Meanings

  1. 1 garment; shirt; unlined upper garment

Examples

Zhè jiàn chènshān hěn hǎokàn.
This shirt looks nice.
Tā chuān le yí jiàn T xùshān.
He wore a T-shirt.

Tips

usage
is mainly used in compounds: 衬衫 (shirt), T恤衫 (T-shirt), 汗衫 (undershirt/vest). Rarely used alone in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
clothing (left-form)
Left clothing radical, the side-form of , picturing the collar and sleeves of a garment. It supplies the meaning: is a garment, specifically a light upper garment — a shirt, blouse, or thin robe. The radical anchors a wide clothing family: (long robe), (skirt), (trousers), (padded jacket), (quilt).
phonetic
shān
fine hair; pattern (three-stroke)
Right supplies the sound — exact match shān with no drift. itself depicts three short slanting strokes representing fine hair, ornament, or decorative pattern. That 'pattern, ornament' image lends a faint semantic flavour: a shirt, often the most decorated layer of clothing. Same series: , (fir tree), contributes to the patterned-shirt picture.

Stroke Order

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