衣服

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Chinese

Etymology 1

gown; clothes
clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
 
simp. and trad.
(衣服)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (34) (3)
Final () (20) (4)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'j+j bjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨi/ /bɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨi/ /biuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiəi/ /biuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɨj/ /buwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔiəi/ /biuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ĭəi/ /bĭuk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔe̯i/ /bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ji1 fuk6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjɨj › ‹ bjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔ(r)əj/ /*ək/
English clothes garment; wear (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 14837 3366
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯl/ /*bɯɡ/
漢服:襖裙

Noun

衣服

  1. clothing; clothes; laundry (Classifier: m)
    衣服穿上  ―  yīfu chuānshang  ―  to put on some clothes
    衣服  ―  yīfu  ―  to do the laundry
    衣服衣服  ―  shài yīfu  ―  to sun clothes
    衣服  ―  liàng yīfu  ―  to hang up the laundry
    衣服已經浸泡快點 [MSC, trad.]
    衣服已经浸泡快点 [MSC, simp.]
    Yīfú yǐjīng jìnpào hěn jiǔ le. Kuàidiǎn qù xǐ ba!
    The clothes have been soaked for a long time. Quickly go wash them!
  2. (informal, proscribed) upper outer garment; jacket; coat
Synonyms
  • (clothing):
Derived terms
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (衣服):

Etymology 2

gown; clothes
clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
 
simp. and trad.
(衣服)

From (, “clothes”), a phono-semantic matching of English E (ecstasy).

Pronunciation


Noun

衣服

  1. (Taiwan, slang) ecstasy; MDMA (Classifier: m)
Synonyms

Etymology 3

to wear
clothes; dress; garment
clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)
 
simp. and trad.
(衣服)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (34) (3)
Final () (20) (4)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'j+jH bjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨiH/ /bɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨiH/ /biuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiəiH/ /biuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɨjH/ /buwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔiəiH/ /biuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ĭəiH/ /bĭuk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔe̯iH/ /bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ji3 fuk6

Verb

衣服

  1. (Classical) to put on clothes

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
ふく
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

()(ふく) (ifuku (counter )

  1. clothing, clothes

Synonyms

See also

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

衣服 (uibok) (hangeul 의복)

  1. hanja form? of 의복 (clothing, clothes)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

衣服

  1. chữ Hán form of y phục (clothes).