水干

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Japanese

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水干 (suikan): a participant wearing a suikan in the Jidai Matsuri in Kyoto.
Kanji in this term
水 干
すい
Grade: 1 		かん
Grade: 6
on'yomi

Etymology

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

Noun

水(すい)干(かん) • (suikan) 

  1. cloth that has been stretched and dried using only water and no starch
  2. an informal garment, like a tunic, worn by males of the Japanese nobility in the Heian period, as outerwear, originally made from such cloth
  3. the edge of the water, the shoreline, the waterside

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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