Wiktionary

ちゃんころ

Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Alternative spelling
銭ころ

Compound of 銭 (chan, “money”, tōon reading) +‎ ころ (koro). koro is possibly either cognate with ころ銭 (korosen, “money”), or possibly a diminutive suffix.[1]

First cited to a text from 1724.[1]

Likely fell out of use, as no pitch accent dictionaries include accentual information.[1][2]

Noun edit

ちゃんころ • (chankoro) 

  1. 銭ころ: (obsolete) money
  2. 銭ころ: (obsolete) something small and insignificant

Etymology 2 edit

Possibly cognate with ちゃんちゃん (chanchan, “Chinese pigtail; Japanese vest; Chink, ching chong”).[3] Alternatively, derived from or a corruption of Mandarin 中國人／中国人 (Zhōngguórén, “Chinese person”).[3]

Cited to ロシアに入る (Roshia ni iru, “Entering Russia”) of 1924.[3]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ちゃんころ or チャンコロ • (chankoro) 

  1. (ethnic slur) Chink (person of Chinese descent), ching chong
    • 1923, Iwasaburō Okino, 薄氷を踏みて‎[4]:
      僕(ぼく)は大連(だいれん)の町(まち)で、日本(にほん)の小學(しょうがく)兒童(じどう)が、支那(しな)の小學(しょうがく)兒童(じどう)をチャンコロと云(い)って罵倒(ばとう)してゐるのを見(み)た。
      boku wa Dairen no machi de, nihon no shōgaku jidō ga, Shina no shōgaku jidō o chankoro to itte batō shite iru no o mita.
      I saw that in the town of Dailian, Japanese elementary school students were abusing the Chinese ones with "Chink".

Etymology 3 edit

Recorded for the Hata dialect of Kōchi in the Tosa Kotoba of 1958. Also recorded for the Kuga dialect of Yamaguchi in the Yamaguchi Shokubutsu Hōgen-shū of 1943 as ちゃんちゃんげーろー (chanchangērō).[4]

Etymology unknown.

Noun edit

ちゃんころ • (chankoro) 

  1. (dialect, Kōchi) red spider lily (Lycoris radiata);

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “ちゃん‐ころ 【銭─】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)  ‎[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 “ちゃん‐ころ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)  ‎[2] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
  4. ^ “ちゃんころ”, in 日本方言大辞典 (Nihon Hōgen Daijiten, “Nihon Hōgen Daijiten”)  ‎[3] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1989, released online 2016, →ISBN
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