Origin

The character 裸 combines a clothing radical on the left, which signals the category of "clothes" or "covering," with the component 果 on the right that serves as a sound hint, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character. The meaning comes from the contrast: while the radical refers to clothing, the overall character describes a state of having no clothes or being uncovered. The visual pairing essentially represents the absence or removal of what the clothing radical normally represents.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).