衬
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(of garments) against the skin; to line; lining; to contrast with; to assist financially
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 衣 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 襯
- Common rank
- #2,289
- Unicode
- U+886C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
inner garments · Heisig RSH #407
glue + 衣 clothing
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 衬
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无衬线 | (typography) sans serif | |
| 衬里 | lining | |
| 相衬 | to contrast; to set off one another; to go well with | |
| 衬线 | serif (typography) | |
| 反衬 | to serve as a foil; to highlight through contrast | |
| 对衬 | to serve as foil to one another | |
| 内衬 | lining (of a container etc) (engineering) | |
| 环衬 | endpaper | |
| 衬衣 | shirt; CL:件[jian4] | |
| 托衬 | see 襯托|衬托[chen4 tuo1] | |
| 衬托 | to serve to highlight; to serve as a backdrop or contrasting element | |
| 女衬衫 | blouse | |
| 衬裤 | underpants | |
| 铺衬 | to serve as a contrasting element | |
| 铺衬 | patch of cloth | |
| 衬垫 | pad | |
| 映衬 | to set off by contrast; antithesis; analogy parallelism (linguistics) | |
| 帮衬 | to help; to assist financially | |
| 衬页 | endpaper | |
| 衬裙 | petticoat |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 寸 — compare how they read.