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The character 裼 combines the clothing radical 衤 (the left-side form of 衣) with the phonetic component 易, which also carries the meaning "to change". It is a classical term for the act of stripping off one's upper garments to bare the upper body, a gesture that could signal disrespect or casualness in ancient etiquette. A separate, rarer meaning is a baby's swaddling wrapper, found mainly in classical texts on historical attire.
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