袴 meaning and stroke order
Pants, trousers; panties
How to write 袴, stroke by stroke
11 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 袴
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- variant of 褲|裤[ku4]
How 袴 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Clothes.
衤 gives the meaning and 夸 hints at the sound.
Radical: 衤 (cloth), shared by 72 characters on this site.
How to remember 袴
The clothing radical 衤 on the left tells you this is something you wear, and 夸 (kuā) on the right gives the sound kù. Picture clothing that lets your legs stride wide apart, like trousers.
袴 is a variant form of 裤 (kù), so in modern Chinese you will almost always see 裤 instead. You may meet 袴 in older texts, names, or historical writing, for example 纨袴子弟 (wán kù zǐ dì), meaning a spoiled rich kid, which is usually written 纨绔子弟 today.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes read 袴 as kuā because of the phonetic 夸, but it is pronounced kù with a fourth tone. Also, do not use 袴 in everyday writing. Write 裤子 (kùzi) for pants.
Questions about 袴
How many strokes are in 袴?
袴 is written with 11 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 袴 mean?
袴 (kù) means pants, trousers; panties.
How do you pronounce 袴?
袴 is pronounced kù, in the fourth tone (falling).
What is the radical of 袴?
The radical of 袴 is 衤, which carries the idea of "cloth". Dictionaries list 袴 under this radical.
What is the simplified form of 袴?
袴 is a traditional character. Its simplified form is 裤, used in mainland China and Singapore.
What is the difference between 袴 and 裤?
They mean the same thing and share the same pronunciation, kù. 裤 is the standard modern form, while 袴 is a variant that mostly appears in older or literary texts.
Is 袴 used in Japanese?
Yes. The same character appears in Japanese for hakama, the traditional pleated trousers. In Chinese, though, it is just a variant of 裤 for pants in general.