•blotting paper (thick paper that soaks up liquids) · tissue paper, crêpe paper (very thin paper used for decoration or making cigarettes) · samizdat (underground publication)
köken: First attested in the 順天金氏墓出土簡札 / 순천김씨 묘 출토 간찰 ("Letters excavated from the grave of Lady Suncheon Kim"), c. 1585, as Middle Korean 슈지 (Yale: syuci), probably a nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 수지 (手紙, suji, “toilet paper; paper at hand”) whose Middle Korean reading was in fact 슈지 (Yale: syuci). If so, the current hanja would be an etymologically erroneous spelling. The modern Standard Seoul…
köken: Calque of German Löschpapier (“blotting paper”). Compound of läska (“quench”) + papper (“paper”). From German löschen (“quench, erase”). First attested in 1640
[…]; daͤrefter twaͤttar man honom [fläcken] med kalt watten, laͤgger laͤſkpapper daͤruppå och far daͤroͤfwer med et hett jaͤrn; […]