First opened Friday, August 25, 2006
水着
みずぎ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
bathing suit (woman's)
Mizugi is 水 (mizu, “water”) plus 着 (-gi, “wear, clothes”), first attested in 1908.
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In a sentence
彼女の水着は目に付く。
Her bathing suit attracts our attention.
彼女は赤い水着を着ていた。
She was dressed in a red bathing suit.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “水(みず) (mizu, “water”) + 着(ぎ) (-gi, “wear, clothes”).”
- “The ki changes to gi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
- “First attested in 1908.”
Source: Wiktionary: 水着 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).