Etymology

shikii

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Today it means: The lower rail on which a Japanese room divider runs. Full definition →

Japanese 敷居
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from敷居
  2. English todayshikii

From Japanese 敷居 (shikii).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.