シャツ
シャツ
hepburn shatsu
shirt
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 白いシャツを着ています。I am wearing a white shirt.
- Tシャツが好きです。I like T-shirts.
Collocations
シャツ (shatsu, shirt)Tシャツ (T-shatsu, T-shirt)ワイシャツ (waishatsu, dress shirt)シャツを着る (shatsu wo kiru, wear a shirt)半袖シャツ (hansode shatsu, short-sleeve shirt)
Mnemonic
シャツ shatsu — katakana loanword from English "shirt". Japanese clothing vocabulary draws heavily from English: most modern Western garments were borrowed wholesale during the Meiji opening. ワイシャツ (waishatsu, dress shirt) comes from "white shirt" — Japanese-English (wasei-eigo) reshaping. The verb is 着る (kiru, torso wear). Native kanji garments (着物 kimono, 下着 shitagi) and katakana loans coexist in parallel — traditional vs modern vocabulary strata.
Quick check
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