襟
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lapel; overlap of Chinese gown; fig. bosom (the seat of emotions); to cherish (ambition, desires, honorable intentions etc) in one's bosom
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 衣 +13
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 襟
- Common rank
- #2,499
- Unicode
- U+895F
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Formation & memory
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How 襟 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Cloth 衤 that restricts 禁; 禁 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
front of a garment · Heisig RSH #907
cloak + 禁 prohibit
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 襟
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 襟怀坦白 | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything; ingenuous; openhearted; unselfish; magnanimo… | |
| 正襟危坐 | to sit upright and still (idiom) | |
| 开襟 | buttoned Chinese tunic; unbuttoned (to cool down) | |
| 对襟 | buttoned Chinese jacket | |
| 襟度 | (literary) breadth of mind | |
| 襟素 | one's true heart | |
| 连襟 | husbands of sisters; brothers-in-law; extremely close (of a relationship) | |
| 衣襟 | the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket; lapel | |
| 胸襟 | lapel of jacket; heart; aspiration; vision | |
| 开襟衫 | cardigan | |
| 襟副翼 | flaperon (aeronautics) | |
| 襟怀 | bosom (the seat of emotions); one's mind | |
| 襟怀夷旷 | broad-minded | |
| 襟弟 | husband of wife's younger sister | |
| 襟翼 | (aircraft) wing flap | |
| 捉襟见肘 | lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom); strapped for cash; unable to make e… | |
| 襟抱 | ambition; an aspiration | |
| 襟兄 | husband of wife's older sister | |
| 扼襟控咽 | to secure a stranglehold (idiom); fig. to hold a strategic pass |