arrive · wear

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 着 has 12 strokes and concerns wearing clothes, arriving, or reaching something.
• Basic usage: 着る is read きる, and 着く is read つく.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Wearing and arriving
  • 青い服を着て means wearing blue clothes.
  • The connective form of 着る is 着て.
  • 駅へ着く means to arrive at the station.
  • へ marks the destination.
  • 両足が床に着いた means both feet reached the floor.
  • The past form of 着く is 着いた.