Vocabulary: China

• 1st-9th rank dress
• 108 bead necklace
• bei yun (counterweight on back of 108 bead necklace)
• bound feet, also known as golden lillies
• chang fu (solid robe worn by Manchurians at home)
• chaofu (formal robe, contains 12 symbols; worn by Emperor 12 times each year)
• chuba (basic Tibetan garment for men and women)
• court boots
• emperor yellow
• fish pocket
• high soled shoes
• horseshoe-shaped cuffs
• jade
• jifu / qifu / chifu (dragon robe; semi-formal)
• ling tou (narrow, standing collar)
• pao (long gown for women, often worn in combination with xia pei)
• Patched garment
• piling (wide collar)
• pearls
• pufu (patched garment)
• python robe
• qi pao (chi pao / xi pao) also known as cheong sam (fitted dress for women)
• queue
• sam fu
• summer hat
• twelve-symbol robe
• winter hat
• xia pei (sleeveless robe for women, worn over the pao)

Last updated: 4/15/2009