衣裳 yīshang clothes
(colloquial) clothes
How to remember 衣裳: 衣 clothes + 裳 skirt = clothes.
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How it is used
- A colloquial word for clothes - 穿衣裳 (chuān yīshang) put on clothes.
- 裳 is toneless shang here. Slightly folksy/regional or literary flavor compared with the standard 衣服 (yīfu).
- Common in songs, older speech, and northern colloquial.