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unlined garment
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袗 refers to an unlined garment, structured as a left-right phono-semantic compound. The semantic component 衣 (clothing) grounds the meaning in apparel, while the phonetic component 㐱 supplies the pronunciation. This character emerged from historical textile terminology that carefully distinguished garments by their layers, setting unlined summer wear apart from lined or padded winter clothing. Thus, the combination of a clothing classifier and a phonetic marker specifies this particular single-layer garment.
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