水干
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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水 | 干 |
すい Grade: 1 |
かん Grade: 6 |
on'yomi |
Etymology
Appears to be a Japanese coinage using elements borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese, as a compound of 水 (sui, “water”) + 干 (kan, “dry”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
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Noun
- cloth that has been stretched and dried using only water and no starch
- an informal garment, like a tunic, worn by males of the Japanese nobility in the Heian period, as outerwear, originally made from such cloth
- the edge of the water, the shoreline, the waterside