Zi:常
常 [cháng] ordinary/common (日常, 平常); often (常常), regularly/constantly (经常); 非常 unusually, very/extremely; (HDZ:) …
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 常 cháng ‘lower garment/clothing (kilt/skirt)’ (裙子), combines 巾 (jīn) ‘cloth/towel’, and 尚(尙) shàng ‘add on top’ (phonosemantic); later also wr. 裳, with 衣 ‘clothing’ below.
Compare: 衣 yī ‘upper garment/clothing (shirt/coat/jacket)’; SW contrasts 衣 yī ‘upper garment’ vs. 常 cháng ‘lower garment’; cf. 妇/婦.
Compare: 常服 chángfú ‘ordinary/informal clothing (everyday wear)’; 裳 sháng ‘clothes’ (衣裳 yīshang).
Note: Today mainly 常 cháng ‘regularly/constantly; often; ordinary/common’; formerly also 常 cháng ‘royal banner/flag; rule of (martial) law’ (cf. 识/識, 帜/幟 ‘banner/flag’).
Compare: 常备军 ‘standing army’, 常备兵 ‘regular/standing army’, 常备 chángbèi ‘always prepared’, 常备不懈 ‘always on alert’.
HDZ: 常 : cháng : (SW: 下帬) 裳: 裙子 (cf. 裙/裠/帬); 常规, 常法; 纲常 (三纲五常), 伦常 (人与人相处的常道); 规律; 本质; (古) (旗帜名) 上绘日月图形, 为天子之旗 (cf. SW: 識: 常); 车上所树之戟; 永久的, 固定不变的; 一般的, 普遍的; 日常的; (副词) 经常, 常常; (古) (单位) 长度单位: 八尺为寻, 两寻为常; (木名) 棠棣 (棠梨); 長; (副词) 嘗: 曾经; 尚 (shàng); 祥 (xiáng); 嫦 (嫦娥); (古地名); (水名); (姓)
►references: Guǎngyùn:176.17; Wieger:36e; Karlgren:GSR725e; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.744.1; Mathews:221; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:333.12; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:189.0.02; EDOC:1
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