ワイシャツ

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1. ワイシャツ

   ワイシャツ

   English white shirt

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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.

• “Japanese ワイシャツ”
• “Clipping of ホワイトシャツ (howaito shatsu), borrowed from English white shirt, from the typical white color of dress shirts.”
• “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.”
• “First cited to 1912. Natsume Sōseki uses the term in his 1915 book 道草 (Michikusa, “Grass on the Wayside”) with the spelling 白襯衣 (literally “white + shirt”), using furigana to indicate a pronunciation of ワイシャツ (waishatsu).”

Source: Wiktionary: ワイシャツ (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.

Clipping

A longer word or phrase shortened in everyday use.