褌

褌 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中月十十 (LBJJ), four-corner 3725₆, composition ⿰衤軍)

1. trousers, pants, shorts, drawers

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1120, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34428
• Dae Jaweon: page 1588, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3104, character 12
• Unihan data for U+890C

Historical forms of the character 褌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kuːn) : semantic 衤 (“clothes”) + phonetic 軍 (OC *kun).

褌

1. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Wu, Waxiang) trousers; pants
2. fundoshi (traditional Japanese loincloth)

• (fundoshi): 兜襠布／兜裆布 (dōudāngbù)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04527

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: こん (kon)
• Kun: ふんどし (fundoshi, 褌)

• (Tokyo) ふんどし [fùńdóshí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟̃ᵝndo̞ɕi]

褌(ふんどし) • (fundoshi) 

1. loincloth; the traditional Japanese underwear for adult males and females, made from a length of cotton
2. (sumo) a sumo wrestler's traditional apron

   人(ひと)の褌(ふんどし)で相撲(すもう)を取(と)る

   hito no fundoshi de sumō o toru

   live on someone’s expense

   (literally, “wrestle in someone’s fundoshi”)

3. a women’s 腰巻 (koshimaki, “a piece of cloth wrapped around the waist, worn as underwear underneath a kimono”)
4. (shogi) a fork by a knight
5. a crab’s abdomen; apron

• → English: fundoshi

• 湯文字(ゆもじ) (yumoji): a kind of loincloth wrap used while bathing; a similar wrap worn historically by women under a kimono

From 三(み)つ (mitsu, “three”).

• (Tokyo) み​つ [míꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mʲit͡sɨᵝ]

褌(みつ) • (mitsu) 

1. (sumo) a sumo wrestler's belt, a mawashi

• たて褌(みつ) (tatemitsu)
• 前褌(まえみつ) (maemitsu, “front of the mawashi”)
• 横褌(よこみつ) (yokomitsu)

褌 • (gon) (hangeul 곤, revised gon, McCune–Reischauer kon, Yale kon)

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