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Word and Radical Components of 衬衫

The Chinese word 衬衫 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
衬衫		1. Simplified form of 襯衫

衬衫 ⇨ 衬 + 衫

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
衬		1. Simplified form of 襯
衫	shān	1. (literary or Wu) unlined garment
		2. (literary or Cantonese, Min) shirt; top
		一件衫 - a shirt
		3. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min, Pinghua) clothing; clothes
		一套衫 - a set of clothes

衬 ⇨ 衤 + 寸

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
衣	yī	1. (upper) garment; clothes; clothing
		衣服 - clothes
		內衣 - underwear
		睡衣 - night clothes; pajamas
		2. coating; covering; skin
		糖衣 - sugar coating
		槍衣 - gun cover
		3. membrane; film
		4. (literary or dialectal) afterbirth; placenta
	yì, yī	衣yì錦還huán鄉 - to return home in glory
寸	cùn	1. (units of measure) A cun or Chinese inch, a traditional unit of length of about 3(nbsp)cm.
		2. (Mainland China) Short for 市寸
		3. (Hong Kong) Legally defined as the tsun of 3.71475(nbsp)cm.
		4. (informal) Short for 英寸, inch
		5. (figurative) very short or little
		6. (TCM) cunkou pulse; radial artery pulse at the wrist
		7. (Mandarin, colloquial) coincidental; unbelievable; opportune
		8. Variant of 忖
		9. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 串 (-)