チンピラ
Japanese
pron
Definitions
- a child or other youth put on putting on airs and acting arrogantly
- a hoodlum, a minor criminal, a hooligan, a punk
- an apprentice yakuza, a low-ranking gangster, a young member of an organized crime group
Etymology
Compound from Japanese ちん + Japanese 小 (small, little, light, female child, slight)+ Japanese 片 (one-sided, side, part, flat thing, one, one side, broad).
Origin
Japanese
片
Gloss
one-sided, side, part, flat thing, one, one side, broad
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
一
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ちん Japanese
- コツメカワウソ Japanese
- ヤリチン Japanese
- 伯母 Japanese
- 刀 Japanese
- 大小 Japanese
- 小 Japanese
- 小児 Japanese
- 小冊子 Japanese
- 小口 Japanese
- 小坂 Japanese
- 小売 Japanese
- 小幅 Japanese
- 小文字 Japanese
- 小槌 Japanese
- 小浜 Japanese
- 小熊 Japanese
- 小牛 Japanese
- 小石 Japanese
- 小羊 Japanese
- 小臼歯 Japanese
- 小蝶鮫 Japanese
- 小説 Japanese
- 小路 Japanese
- 小道具 Japanese
- 小酒 Japanese
- 小量 Japanese
- 小鍋 Japanese
- 小阪 Japanese
- 小雨 Japanese
- 小頭鼠海豚 Japanese
- 小鯨 Japanese
- 帷子 Japanese
- 最小 Japanese
- 片 Japanese
- 片仮名 Japanese
- 片利共生 Japanese
- 片眼鏡 Japanese
- 過小 Japanese
- 一等 Old Korean