水干

Japanese

水干 (suikan): a participant wearing a suikan in the Jidai Matsuri in Kyoto.

Kanji in this term
水	干
すい Grade: 1	かん Grade: 6
on’yomi

Etymology

Appears to be a Japanese coinage using elements borrowed from Middle Chinese, as a compound of 水 (sui, “water”) +‎ 干 (kan, “dry”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) すいかん [sùíkáń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sɨᵝikã̠ɴ]

Noun

水(すい)干(かん) • (suikan) 

1. cloth that has been stretched and dried using only water and no starch
2. an informal garment, like a tunic, worn by males of the Japanese nobility in the Heian period, as outerwear, originally made from such cloth
3. the edge of the water, the shoreline, the waterside