水干
Japanese
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
- On’yomi
- (Tokyo) すいかん [sùíkáń] (Heiban – [0])[2]
- IPA(key): [sɨᵝikã̠ɴ]
Noun
水干 (hiragana すいかん, rōmaji suikan)
- cloth that has been stretched and dried using only water and no starch
- an informal garment worn by males of the Japanese nobility in the Heian period, originally made from such cloth
- the edge of the water, the shoreline, the waterside
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN