Mandarin dress
A woman in a cheongsam
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| Type | Dress |
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| Material | Silk, cotton |
| Place of origin | China |
| Cheongsam | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Cheongsam" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
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| Traditional Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 长衫 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "long gown" | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | chángshān |
| Bopomofo | ㄔㄤˊ ㄕㄢ |
| IPA | [ʈʂʰǎŋʂán] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | chèuhng-sāam |
| IPA | [tsʰœ̭ːŋsáːm] |
| Jyutping | coeng4-saam1 |
The cheongsam (from Cantonese Chinese: 長衫; Jyutping: coeng4saam1;/ˈtʃiːɒŋˈsæm/,/ˈtʃɒŋˈsæm/ or /ˈtʃɒŋˈsɑːm/) is a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women, also known as qipao (from Mandarin Chinese: ; pinyin: qípáo; Wade–Giles: ch'i-p'ao; IPA: [t͡ɕʰǐ pʰɑ̌ʊ̯]), and Mandarin gown. The stylish and often tight-fitting cheongsam or qipao (chipao) that is best known today was created in the 1920s in Shanghai and made fashionable by socialites and upper class women.
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