T恤

Chinese

give relief; sympathy
simp. and trad.
(T恤) 		T 恤
alternative forms T裇

Etymology

Borrowed from English T-shirt. According to Handel, the word originally entered Chinese via Cantonese (or some other variety whose pronunciation of 恤 also resembled English shirt), and then was orthographically borrowed from those varieties into Mandarin.

Pronunciation

Noun

T恤

  1. T-shirt

Synonyms

See also

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