衣领 (yī lǐng) — collar (of a garment) | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

collar (of a garment)

Measure word · 个

Examples

衣领。
Tā de chèn shān yī lǐng hěn tǐng.
His shirt collar is very stiff.
衣领。
Zhè jiàn máo yī de yī lǐng tài gāo le.
The collar of this sweater is too high.
衣领。
Tā bǎ yī lǐng lì qǐ lái dǎng fēng.
She stood up her collar to block the wind.

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yīclothing

领 is the collar or neck area, and 衣 shows it belongs to clothing, so the sense is a garment collar.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 領; 领 is its simplified writing.

令頁領

Meaning part形符xíngfú

頁頁yè

Sound part声符shēngfú

令

令lìng領lǐng

Same sound today

The traditional form 領 has 令 as a sound part and 頁 as a meaning part; the simplified 领 is a later shorthand.

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