衫 shān shirt
How to remember 衫: 衤 clothes + 彡 hairs = shirt. Before his date, the young man throws all his clothes on the bed, finds dog hairs everywhere and panics over his only clean shirt.
Component breakdown
衫 = 衤 clothes + 彡 hairs
- 衤 clothes
- 彡 hairs
Before his date, the young man throws all his clothes on the bed, finds dog hairs everywhere and panics over his only clean shirt.
How it is used
- Bound morpheme for a light upper garment - lives in 衬衫 (chènshān) shirt and 汗衫 (hànshān) undershirt/T-shirt.
- Don't confuse with 衬 (chèn): 衬 is the lining/contrast half, 衫 is the garment half; together they make 'shirt'.
- 衤 (clothes) vs 礻 (ritual/altar) look alike - 衫 takes the clothes radical.
Words with 衫
Example sentences
- 他穿了件格子衬衫。 Tā chuānle jiàn gézi chènshān.He is wearing a checkered shirt.