First opened Saturday, August 30, 2008
パンツ
パンツ
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
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).
underpants
パンツ, “underpants”, is borrowed from English “pants” and first cited to a text from 1896.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
パンツとブラジャー以外は全部脱いでください。
Please take off all your clothes except your underpants and bra.
「どーした、もじもじして」「あーいや、何かパンツのゴム切れちゃったみたいで」
"What's up? Fidgeting like that" "Er, well, it looks like the elastic's gone in my pants."
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Borrowed from English pants.”
- “First cited to a text from 1896.”
Source: Wiktionary: パンツ (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
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.