衣架

yī jià · HSK 3

hanger

👚 衣架 = 衣 (clothes) + 架 (rack/frame)

衣 means clothing or garment; 架 means a frame, shelf, or rack used to hold things up. Together 衣架 literally reads clothes-rack — the everyday word for a coat hanger or drying rack.

架 — wood 木 + add 加 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 木 (wood) gives the meaning, since a 架 is a wooden frame, rack, or shelf used to support things. 加 (jiā) supplies the sound. From 'wooden frame' it extended to verbs like 'to set up,' 'to prop up,' and to a measure word for framed objects such as airplanes.

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