Chankoro
Chankoro (Japanese: ちゃんころ or チャンコロ, etymology is unclear,[2][3] Ogata[4] suggests "pigtailed fellow" while Shih states that it means "Qing slave"[5]) is a Sinophobic ethnic slur[6] used by the Japanese since the end of the Qing dynasty[2] and it was also an expression of insult to the Chinese people.[7]
In the English subtitles of the multilingual Chinese movie Devils on the Doorstep, the term is mostly translated as "Chinese pig(s)"" or "mongrel(s)".[3]
In Korean
After Japan annexed Korea, the Japanese word chankoro entered the Korean language as jjangkkolla (Korean: 짱꼴라), which evolved into the current jjangkkae (Korean: 짱깨), and jjangkkae has become a representative derogatory term for Chinese people in Korea.[8]
See also
Look up ちゃんころ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan
- Ching chong
- Chink, a similar slur in English
- Racism in Japan
References
- ^ Barske 2013, p. 72.
- ^ a b "チャンコロとは、中国人の蔑称。". 日本語俗語辞書. Archived from the original on 2013-01-20. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ a b Takeda 2013, p. 101.
- ^ Ogata 2022, p. 85.
- ^ Shih 2022, p. 327.
- ^ Tahmasbi et al. 2021.
- ^ 黃英哲 (2015-10-15). "【說書】臺灣作家筆下的「抗戰」". 故事 StoryStudio. Archived from the original on 2025-07-26.
- ^ "Translation of "チャンコロ" into Korean". Glosbe. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
짱깨; jjangkkae; ちゃんころ · チャンコロ · ポコペン · 支那人 · 不コ本
Sources
- Barske, Valerie H. (March 2013). "Visualizing Priestesses or Performing Prostitutes?: Ifa Fuyū's Depictions of Okinawan Women, 1913-1943" (PDF). Studies on Asia. Series IV. 3 (1).
- Ogata, Sadako (2022-11-02) [1965]. "The Japanese attitude towards China". Adelphi series. 62 (498–501): 83–96. doi:10.1080/19445571.2022.2281784. ISSN 1944-5571. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
- Shih, Fang-long (2022), A century of struggle over Taiwan's cultural self-consciousness: the life and afterlife of Chiang Wei-shui and the Taiwan Cultural Association* Simon, Scott (2006). "Formosa's First Nations and the Japanese: from Colonial Rule to Postcolonial Resistance". The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. ISSN 1557-4660. Archived from the original on December 22, 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
- Tahmasbi, Fatemeh; Schild, Leonard; Ling, Chen; Blackburn, Jeremy; Stringhini, Gianluca; Zhang, Yang; Zannettou, Savvas (2021-04-19). "Go eat a bat, Chang!": On the Emergence of Sinophobic Behavior on Web Communities in the Face of COVID-19. ACM. arXiv:2004.04046. doi:10.1145/3442381.3450024. ISBN 978-1-4503-8312-7.
- Takeda, Kayoko (2013-05-29). "The interpreter as traitor: Multilingualism in Guizi lai le (Devils on the Doorstep)". Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (13). doi:10.52034/lanstts.v0i13.71. ISSN 2295-5739. Retrieved 2025-09-04.