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Japanese
Etymology
Compound of 片 (kata, “side; one-sided”) + 枚 (hira, “layer, thin flat thing”).[1][2]
The kanji for this word are an example of jukujikun (熟字訓), from 帷 (tobari, “curtain”) and 子 (ko, “small thing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
帷子 • (katabira)
- a cloth curtain used as a partition
- unlined cloth clothing
- a hitoe (single-layer kimono) worn during the summer
- (Buddhism) a special white kimono used to dress the dead for a Buddhist funeral, inscribed with the person's honorary name, an excerpt from a sutra, or a portion of a chant
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