衣 – garment, clothes, dressing

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The kanji 衣 means garment, clothes, dressing. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is イ、エ (i, e); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ころも、きぬ、-ぎ (koromo, kinu, gi). It is written with 6 strokes, under radical 衣 (no. 145).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	イ	i
On’yomi	エ	e
Kun’yomi	ころも	koromo
Kun’yomi	きぬ	kinu
Kun’yomi	-ぎ	gi

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 衣 (Kangxi radical 145). Components: 亠.

Words using 衣

衣服いふくclothes衣料いりょうclothing浴衣ゆかたyukata衣食住いしょくじゅうfood, clothing and shelter衣類いるいclothes衣装いしょうclothing

Example sentences

彼らは衣服をほとんど着用しない。

They wear very little clothing.

Tatoeba #97548

衣料品がだぶついている。

We have an oversupply of clothing.

Tatoeba #190976

ジャーン。それじゃ春田くん、もう見てもいいわよ。みんなの浴衣、お披露目ねぇ〜。

Ta-dah! Well then, Haruta, it's OK to look now! It's everybody's yukata debut.

Tatoeba #76675

Kanji with the same radical

表裁補被製装裏複裂裕袋襲衰裸袖襟

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.