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襦

rú
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a short jacket or coat (worn in ancient times)
  2. 2 a short padded garment

Examples

她穿着紫色丝襦，下配浅色裙子。
Tā chuān zhe zǐsè sī rú, xià pèi qiǎnsè qúnzi.
She wore a purple silk short jacket over a light-colored skirt.
襦裙是古代妇女常见的服饰。
Rú qún shì gǔdài fùnǚ chángjiàn de fúshì.
The jacket-and-skirt outfit was common dress for women in ancient times.

Tips

history
A classic garment word: a short upper coat reaching no lower than the knee, often paired with a long skirt as 襦裙. You meet it in poetry and costume description rather than in modern conversation about clothes.

Components

radical
衤 yīzìpáng
clothing (left-side form of 衣)
The clothing radical, side form of 衣. Any character with this on the left names a garment or something to do with cloth — here a short coat.
phonetic
需 xū
to need; to require
Carries the sound. Standalone 需 reads xū; in this character the reading has shifted to rú. It contributes pronunciation only, not meaning.

Stroke Order

襦 rú