HSK Guide

衣 部首 145 — clothing, a garment; the upper garment

yī (first tone, high and level)

clothing, a garment; the upper garment

部首 1456 画0 汉字

Also written 衤 — the same radical in a different position inside the character.

汉字库词汇库

Where the shape comes from

A robe laid out flat: the collar folded over at the top and the two flaps hanging below, one crossed over the other in the way a Chinese gown closes. On the left of a character it becomes 衤 and marks cloth and what is cut from it: 初 the first cut of the shears, 被, 裤, 裙, 衬. Its one dot too many is what tells it from the altar radical 礻.

汉字 filed under 衣

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.