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裣 (liǎn) denotes an ancient garment or the act of drawing one's clothes tightly around the body. It is a phono-semantic compound: the clothing radical 衤 (yī) on the left provides the meaning, while the right-side phonetic is 佥 (qiān). The traditional form 襝 uses the more complex component 僉 (qiān), which was later simplified by reducing strokes to 佥, creating the modern 裣. The character appears most often in the compound 裣衽 (liǎnrèn), a traditional women's greeting gesture involving the adjustment of sleeves or the overlapping front panels of a robe.
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