衣
JLPT HSK 1

yī, yì

Image of a shirt with neck, collar and below two sleeves.

	喂
JLPT HSK 1

wèi
Left: mouth 口, right: awe, reverence 畏 (.. because he has rice fields 田 and [good] clothes 衣.)
His mouth was in awe when saying: "Hello!"

	表
JLPT HSK 2

biǎo
Top: growing plant , below: clothes 衣
Growing plants and clothes show at the surface.

	旅
JLPT HSK 2

lǚ
Left: square/direction 方, right: originally two persons 人 assembling under a banner - (alternatively: see it as a variation for clothes 衣?)
Arranged in one direction the people are under the banner ready for the journey.

	被
JLPT HSK 3

bèi
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: skin/leather 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂.)
(A large fur is meant.) "Clothes" of leather serve as bedding.

	裤
JLPT HSK 3

kù
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: warehouse 库 (If there is a vehicle 车/車 in a building 广, then in the warehouse.)
Clothes for the warehouse are the pants.

	衫
JLPT HSK 3

shān
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: hair 彡
Clothes (that is warming) like hair, is: the shirt.

	裙
JLPT HSK 3

qún
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: monarch,master 君 (Here: hand with needle ノ and circumferential closed 口 skirt [in cross-sectional view])
This clothing is sewn made with a needle in a hand and looks (in cross-sectional view) like a skirt: The skirt!

	衬
JLPT HSK 3

chèn
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: skillful hand 寸
(For sewing) clothes you need a skillful hand if it is an inner layer or underwear.

	展
JLPT HSK 4

zhǎn
From top: buttock seen from the side 尸, grass, plant 艹, var. of clothes 衣
For the buttocks they used grass to make clothes, and this should be in an exhibition.

	袋
JLPT HSK 4

dài
Top: generation 代 (The person 人 passes on the sabre 弋 to next generation.), below: clothes 衣
(Younger siblings must continue to wear the clothes until been worn out.) If already generations used these clothes, it looks like a sack!

	袜
JLPT HSK 4

wà
Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: end 末 (The top branch 一 of the tree 木 marks the end.)
The clothes that are at the end (of the body) are the socks.

	裁
JLPT HSK 5

cái
Top: ten 十, halberd 戈, bottom: clothes 衤/衣
For ten layers of clothes we use a halberd to cut it out.

	农
JLPT HSK 5

nóng
Top: cover 冖, below: variant of clothes 衣
(Because he has to go out in all weathers) He has a side-extended cover on his clothes: the peasant!

	装
JLPT HSK 5

zhuāng
Top: strong, robust 壮 (In the bed 丬 is the scholar 士 strong and robust) [丬=tree cut into half], below: clothes 衣
In the bed the scholar (recovered) and wears his clothes like a costume.

	补
JLPT HSK 5

bǔ
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: fortune telling 卜 (here: image of a needle with a thread (cf. 针)
For the clothes, take a needle to repair.

	滚
JLPT HSK 5

gǔn
Left: water 氵, right: 衮 (six 六, nose 厶, clothes 衣)
In the water are six noses and clothes that are boiling.

	依
JLPT HSK 5

yī
Left: Person 人, right: clothes 衣
(Dress for success:) How the person dresses, it is depending on.

	初
JLPT HSK 5

chū
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: sword 刀
He is wearing the clothes and the sword for the first time.

	裹
JLPT HSK 5

guǒ
Top and bottom: clothes 衤/衣, middle: fruit 果 (= the 'rice field' 田 at the tree 木)
Within the clothes are the fruits wrapped as: a parcel!

	裔
JLPT HSK 5

yì
Top: clothes 衣, bottom: 冏 as a variant of sales/trade 商 (A vendor standing behind a sales desk 冂/冏 with some goods 口)
The clothes are sold for the descendants.

	裕
JLPT HSK 6

yù
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: valley 谷 (Shows a valley that opens into a plain 口.)
The clothes in this valley looks rich.

	裂
JLPT HSK 6

liè
Top: row 列 (wicked 歹 [= bar bone] is exposed with a knife刂 in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: clothes 衣
In a row (=direction of looming) clothes are teared.

	畏
JLPT HSK 6

wèi
From top: field 田, Variation of clothes 衣
He has fields and (good) clothes: we are in awe.

	衷
JLPT HSK 6

zhōng
Center: middle 中, rest: clothes 衣
In the middle of the clothes she hides her inner feelings.

	袭
JLPT HSK 6

xí
Top: dragon 龙 (The outstanding 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a winding dragon ノ), bottom: clothes 衤/衣
If the dragon is at your clothes, it is an attack.

	袍
JLPT HSK 6

páo
Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
The cloth for being "enwrapped", is a gown.

	袖
JLPT HSK 6

xiù
Left: clothes/cloth 衤/衣, right: reason 由 (The seedling /sprout 丨 in the field 田 has its reason)
If the cloth has something "sprouting" out (like a seedling 丨), it is: the sleeve.

	衰
JLPT HSK 6

cuī, shuāi
Sorrow, distress 哀 (in the clothes 衣 a big hole 口), dash 一, e.g. for a cut
The distress about the cut made him weak.

	丧
JLPT HSK 6

sāng, sàng
Top: two bodies 丷 in the earth 土 (cf. gold 金), bottom: clothes 衣
When the two bodies come into the earth, you wear these clothes: to mourn at the funeral.

	裳
JLPT HSK 6

cháng
Top: esteem, to value 尚 (A small 小 house 宀 with a window 口 is furthermore esteemed.), below: clothes 衤/衣
An esteem clothes is the skirt.

	袱
JLPT HSK 6

fú
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: subsue 伏 (A person 亻/人 is like a dog 犬, when it subdues.)
With clothes a person can (carry) a dog, enwrapped as: a bundle.

	哀
JLPT HSK 6

āi
Top and bottom: clothes 衣, center: a big hole 口
Clothes with a central hole causes: sorrow.

	袁
JLPT no HSK

yuán
From top: earth 土, mouth 口 (here: sleeve), clothes 衣
Down to the ground reaches the sleeve 口 of this clothe: the long robe.

	襟
JLPT no HSK

jīn
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: prohibit, forbid 禁 (In the wood 林 a "Showing up 示" is forbidden, Or: Putting only twice wood 林 on the altar 示 (as a sacrifice) is: forbidden.)
Clothes that is forbidden: are lapels.

	裘
JLPT no HSK

qiú
Top: ask for, request 求 ([I'm dying of thirst:] Just one 一 drop 丶 of water 水, this is my: request!), bottom: clothes 衤/衣
(It's very cold:) I request clothes, namely: fur.

	襄
JLPT no HSK

xiāng
From top: cover 亠, two pieces 口, well 井,cloth 衣
For covering 亠 both (=two pieces 口) wells 井 with cloth 衣, I need help!

	裴
JLPT no HSK

péi
Top: not, denial 非 (inverted wings 羽), bottom: clothes 衤/衣
The one who has no clothes, is: Mr. Péi.

	褂
JLPT no HSK

guà
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: trigram 卦 (twice earth 圭 as fortune telling 卜 in trigram)
Clothes in fortune telling can ensheath as a coat.

	猿
JLPT no HSK

yuán
Left: wild animal 犭, right: long robe (old) 袁 (Down to the ground 土 reaches the sleeve 口 of this clothes 衣: the long robe.)
An animal in a long robe appears like: a monkey.

	褪
JLPT no HSK

tùn
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: to retreat, decline 退 (The movement 辶 is not good 艮 if it is a retreat.)
Clothes are 'retreated', when they are: taken off.

	褥
JLPT no HSK

rù
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: disgrace, dishonor 辱 (Having the plow 辰 in his skillful hands 寸 he understood as: disgrace.)
For clothes it is a disgrace only serving as: a mattress.

	袄
JLPT no HSK

ǎo
Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: early death 夭 (here: heaven/sky 天)
The cloth that is heavenly, is used for the lined coat.

	亵
JLPT no HSK

xiè
Top und down: cloth 衤(衣), middle: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.)
Grasping someone's clothes [i.e. by hand 扌 at a button 丸] is disrespectful.

	袅
JLPT no HSK

niǎo
Top: vari. of bird 鸟/鳥 (= a bird with head, wings, and claws), bottom: clothes 衤
(With feather ornaments?) If you use birds for clothes/dressing, you look: delicate and graceful.

	辗
JLPT no HSK

zhǎn
Left: vehicle 车/車, right: exhibition, to spread out 展 (For the buttocks 尸 they used grass 艹 to make clothes 衣, and this should be in an exhibition)
With a vehicle the buttocks becomes (flat) like clothes, if you: roll over.

	褒
JLPT no HSK

bāo
Top + below: clothes 衣, center: protect 保 (The person 亻builds a fence 口 over tree 木 to protect it.)
To preserve clothes is to be praised.

	袒
JLPT no HSK

tǎn
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: sun rise 旦 (The sun 日 above the horizon 一)
Stripping of the clothes, just as the sun exposes itself at sunrise, means: become bare.

	偎
JLPT no HSK

wēi
Left: person 亻, right: awe/reverence 畏 (because he has rice fields 田 and (good) clothes 衣)
(Don't jump all over your partner right away:) A person shows awe/respect when cuddling.

	碾
JLPT no HSK

niǎn
Left: stone 石, right: to exhibit 展 (For the buttocks 尸 they used grass 艹 to make clothes 衣, and this should be in an exhibition)
The stone that is (especially) exhibited is the millstone.

	褶
JLPT no HSK

zhě
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: 習 (wing, feather 羽/ 习 und weiß 白)
If the clothes have "white wings", they are: pleats.

	褚
JLPT no HSK

chǔ
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: person 者 (old man 耂 on the sun 日)
Such clothes have the persons of family Chu.

	褐
JLPT no HSK

hè
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: interrogation 曷 (=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.)
The clothes at interrogations are of coarse woolen cloth.

	裸
JLPT no HSK

luǒ
Left: var. of clothes 衤/衣, right: fruit 果 (= The "rice field" 田 at the tree 木)
Clothes have the effect, as its "fruit", that you are not naked.