衣帽间 (yī mào jiān) — cloakroom, coatroom (a room for storing coats,… | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

cloakroomcoatroom (a room for storing coats, hats, and other outerwear)

Measure word · 间

Examples

衣帽间。
Qǐng bǎ wài tào fàng zài yī mào jiān lǐ.
Please put your coat in the cloakroom.
衣帽间。
Jù yuàn mén kǒu yǒu yí gè hěn dà de yī mào jiān.
There is a very large cloakroom at the entrance of the theater.
，衣帽间。
Jìn bó wù guǎn qián, qǐng jiāng yǔ sǎn cún rù yī mào jiān.
Before entering the museum, please store your umbrella in the coatroom.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

衣帽clothes and hats

衣yīclothes帽màohat

联合Coordinate

衣 and 帽 name clothes and hats, and 间 is a room, so it is a room for storing them.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 衣 comes from an outline of the chest and upper clothing.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

巾冒帽

Meaning part形符xíngfú

巾巾jīncloth

Sound part声符shēngfú

冒

冒mào帽mào

Same sound today

帽 uses 巾 (cloth) for the meaning and 冒 for the sound. The earlier form 冃 was later written with 目 and 巾 added.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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