巿

noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a ceremonial leather knee-cover worn over court robes (archaic)

Examples

Dàyǔ qīngpén, bǎ dàjiā dōu lín shī le.
The rain fell heavily, soaking everyone through.

Tips

history
巿 (a ceremonial knee-apron, distinct from the look-alike 'market') is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives as the phonetic in (abundant / Pei), (lung), and (luxuriant, in classical names).
mistakes
Do not confuse 巿 (one vertical stroke straight through, four strokes) with 'market' (a dot on top, five strokes). They look almost identical but are different characters.

Components

pictograph
巿
ceremonial knee-cover
A small drawing of a cloth or leather flap hanging from a sash — the knee-apron worn at court. Treated as one pictograph; the hanging cloth is drawn as a single figure in 巿.

Filed under radical (jīn, #50) by convention. is not a separate component in 巿, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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