シャツ

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)

Noun

シャツ (rōmaji shatsu)

  1. a shirt
    シャツのボタンを (はず)してください。
    Shatsu no botan o hazushite kudasai.
    Please unbutton your shirt.
    Synonym: ワイシャツ (waishatsu)
  2. an undershirt, a vest
    Synonym: ランニング シャツ (ranningu shatsu)

Usage notes

Rarely found with the kanji spelling 襯衣:

:
もっとも (おどろ)いたのはこの (あつ)いのにフランネルの (しゃ) () ()ている。
Motto mo odoroita no wa kono atsui no ni furanneru no shatsu o kite iru.
But what surprised me most was that he wore a flannel shirt in this hot weather.

Derived terms

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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