水干
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 水 | 干 |
| すい Grade: 1 |
かん Grade: 6 |
| on’yomi | |
Etymology[edit]
Appears to be a Japanese coinage using elements borrowed from Middle Chinese, as a compound of 水 (sui, “water”) + 干 (kan, “dry”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- 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- an informal garment, like a tunic, worn by males of the Japanese nobility in the Heian period, as outerwear, originally made from such cloth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
References[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 水 read as すい
- Japanese terms spelled with 干 read as かん
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters