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I would like to ask the Cantonese speakers about the 中山裝.
As we know, 中山裝 is similar to the western suit, 西裝, it is designed with the jacket (外套) and the inner shirt (長袖衫). However, my friends told me that the "長袖衫" is called 𧙥底 (pronounced as 桶底 tung2 dai2) in Cantonese.
So, is it correct?
CantoDict doesn't contain a word like「𧙥底」, and given that the character「𧙥」is located in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block, it's not a common use character. An appropriate reading and meaning for「𧙥」appears in the Kangxi Dictionary:
However, that definition says「衣短袖」, which is almost the exact opposite to「長袖衫」. If whoever you heard it from is not mistaken, then that will be a Cantonese dialect word, and not Standard Cantonese.
The closest entry in CantoDict which matches the meaning is「底衫」(dai2 saam1, undershirt). I'm going to note here that「長袖衫」doesn't actually mean inner shirt, it means long-sleeved shirt, and if this tailor that you're seeing designs inner shirts with short sleeves instead then「𧙥底」(or maybe「𧙥底衫」) sounds entirely appropriate.
I know you are asking for Cantonese, but perhaps this word in Mandarin may lead you (or another Cantonese speaker) to the actual term:
衬衫 chen4shan1
This is a generic term for single-layer shirts, including undershirts.
The name Zhong Shan comes from the name of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, but this jacket is also known as Lenin suit (Lenin being the leader of the former USSR) or Indian suit (a little different though), so the inner shirt is no more than the shirt westerners wear for a suit. It is not the original product of Guangdong Province of China.
