シャツ

シャツ · shatsu · JLPT N5 · noun

shirt

シャツ — shirt

👕 shatsu = English shirts, said the Japanese way

A loanword from English shirt(s). The sh- stays, the r drops out, and the final ts picks up a u because Japanese syllables end in a vowel. Written in katakana, the script used for borrowed words.

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