シャツ

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 白いシャツを着ています。▶ —
   I am wearing a white shirt.
2. Tシャツが好きです。▶ —
   I like T-shirts.

Collocations

Mnemonic

シャツ — shatsu, a loanword from English "shirt". Written in katakana. Japanese clothing vocabulary divides into two strata ── traditional dress: 着物 kimono, 下着 shitagi ── the kanji-written Yamato / Sino-Japanese layer. modern Western dress: シャツ, ズボン, スカート ── the katakana loanword layer. When Western clothes arrived in the Meiji opening, the garments and their names were borrowed together ── inside a wardrobe, the historical strata of vocabulary are stacked intact. A curious wasei-eigo (Japanese-made English) ── ワイシャツ waishatsu (dress shirt) is 'white shirt' with 'white' worn down to ワイ. It started from English but took a form English never had. The verb pairing is 着る kiru ── シャツを着る.

Quick check

1. Etymology of ワイシャツ?

   • Japanese-English reshaping of "white shirt"
   • Y-shaped shirt
   • Wine-colored shirt
   • Y-collar shirt