袂
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sleeve of a robe
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 衣 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 袂
- Common rank
- #3,256
- Unicode
- U+8882
Formation & memory
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How 袂 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
衤 meaning “clothes” + 夬 sound ()
Components 衤 夬
Words with 袂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 投袂而起 | lit. to shake one's sleeves and rise (idiom); fig. to get excited and move to action | |
| 分袂 | to leave each other; to part company | |
| 联袂 | jointly; as a group; together | |
| 连袂 | variant of 聯袂|联袂[lian2 mei4] | |
| 把袂 | to have an intimate friendship | |
| 判袂 | (literary) (of two people) to separate; to part | |
| 奋袂 | to roll up one's sleeves for action | |
| 攘袂 | to rise to action with a determined shake of the arms | |
| 揄袂 | to walk with the hands in one's sleeves |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夬 — compare how they read.