帷子

Japanese
Kanji in this term
帷 子
かたびら
Hyōgaiji Grade: 1
jukujikun

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Coordinate terms

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
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