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裆

襠
dāng
noun #29,053

Meanings

  1. 1 crotch (of trousers)
  2. 2 seat of pants
  3. 3 groin area of clothing

Examples

这条裤子的裆太紧，穿起来不舒服。
Zhè tiáo kùzi de dāng tài jǐn, chuān qǐlái bù shūfu.
The crotch of these trousers is too tight and uncomfortable to wear.
他的裤子裆破了一个洞。
Tā de kùzi dāng pò le yīgè dòng.
His trousers have a hole in the crotch.

Components

radical
衤 yī
clothing (left-side radical of 衣)
Left clothing radical, the side-compressed form of 衣. Indexes 裆 in the garment family (衫 shirt, 裤 trousers, 袖 sleeve, 袋 pouch) and locks the word firmly to fabric — specifically the cloth join at the crotch of pants, the seat-seam where the two legs meet.
phonetic
当 dāng
to be; to bear (here phonetic)
Right 当 supplies the sound dāng directly with no shift — a tidy phono-semantic where the right side reads exactly the same as the whole character. The traditional form 襠 used 當 here; 1956 reform shrank both 當 → 当 and 襠 → 裆 in one stroke.

Stroke Order

裆 dāng