noun
General term for paper as a material or sheets of paper.
紙に名前を書いてください。
Please write your name on the paper.
この紙はとても薄い。
This paper is very thin.
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
Loanword from English, often used in compounds (e.g., トイレットペーパー) or for specific types of paper, while 紙 is the general native term.
Native Japanese word. The kanji 紙 is a phono-semantic compound: 糸 (thread) + 氏 (phonetic), originally referring to a type of cloth, later extended to paper.