ホワイトシャツ

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowing from English white shirt.[1][2][3]

The meaning in Japanese evolved over time to extend first to any dress shirt, regardless of color, and then to any long-sleeved button-down shirt in general.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ホワイトシャ​ツ [hòwáítósháꜜtsù] (Nakadaka – [5])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ho̞ɰᵝa̠ito̞ɕa̠t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

ホワイトシャツ • (howaito shatsu) 

  1. a dress shirt
  2. a long-sleeved button-down shirt

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. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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