The two weapons together were called the daishō, and represented the social power and personal honour of the samurai. It could also be worn with the tantō, an even smaller similarly shaped blade. The katana was typically paired with the wakizashi or shōtō, a similarly made but shorter sword, both worn by the members of the warrior class. Pronounced in the kun'yomi (Japanese reading) of the kanji 刀, the word has been adopted as a loan word by the English language as Japanese does not have separate plural and singular forms, both "katanas" and "katana" are considered acceptable plural forms in English. It is also used specifically for a type of Japanese backsword or longsword (大刀 daitō) in use after the 1400s: a curved, single-edged sword traditionally used by the samurai. Katana (刀) is the word for " sword" in the Japanese language.
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