半臂

Japanese

Kanji in this term
半 臂
はん
Grade: 2 		ひ > ぴ
Hyōgai
on'yomi

Noun

半(はん)臂(ぴ) • (hanpi) 

  1. (clothing) sleeveless robe worn in men's formal court dress under the 袍 (hō) and over the 下襲 (shitagasane), or under the 襖 (ao) in earlier iterations of court dress. Made of silk in the winter and silk-gauze in the summer
  2. (poetry) short for 半臂の句 (hanpi no ku, “(poetry) an adorned third line in a tanka”)

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