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帷子

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
かたびら
Hyōgai Grade: 1
jukujikun

Etymology

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Compound of (kata, side; one-sided) +‎ (hira, layer, thin flat thing).[1][2]

The kanji for this word are an example of jukujikun (熟字訓), from (tobari, curtain) and (ko, small thing).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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帷子(かたびら) (katabira

  1. a cloth curtain used as a partition
  2. unlined cloth clothing
  3. a hitoe (single-layer kimono) worn during the summer
  4. (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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References

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  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 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN