"-chan" meaning in All languages combined

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Suffix [English]

Etymology: From the Japanese honorific ちゃん (-chan). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|-}} Japanese Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -chan, {{en-suffix}} -chan
  1. (anime and manga fandom) Appended to a person's name (usually a female, child, a close friend, or an intimate) to add politeness. It is sometimes used to denote cuteness or familiarity. Tags: morpheme Translations (nominal affix indicating familiarity): (xiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), (Chinese Mandarin), (jiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), ちゃん (-chan) (Japanese), (-jjang) (Korean), -चान (-cān) (Marathi), -тян (-tjan) (Russian), -чян (-čjan) (Ukrainian)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Suffix [English]

Etymology: In reference to 4chan, in turn from Futaba Channel (cf. its URL, www.2chan.net, or its alternate names ふたばちゃん and 双葉ちゃん found on its homepage); hence, derived from Japanese チャンネル (channeru), from English channel. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ja|チャンネル|tr=channeru}} Japanese チャンネル (channeru), {{der|en|en|channel}} English channel Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=|cat3=|head=|id=}} -chan, {{en-suffix}} -chan
  1. (Internet slang) Used in the names of imageboards, usually ones that try to emulate 4chan. Tags: Internet, morpheme Related terms: chan
    Sense id: en--chan-en-suffix-zBc-g51S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms borrowed back into English, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English terms borrowed back into English: 38 62 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Suffix [Irish]

Head templates: {{head|ga|suffix|cat2=noun-forming suffixes|cat3=|g=m|g2=}} -chan m, {{ga-suffix|n|m}} -chan m
  1. forms verbal nouns from first-conjugation verbs ending in -igh Tags: masculine, morpheme
    Sense id: en--chan-ga-suffix-V-OqZKEv Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Romanization [Japanese]

Head templates: {{head|ja|romanization|head=|sc=Latn}} -chan
  1. Rōmaji transcription of ちゃん Tags: Rōmaji, alt-of, romanization Alternative form of: ちゃん

Suffix [Ye'kwana]

IPA: [-t͡ʃaŋ]
Head templates: {{head|mch|suffix}} -chan
  1. allomorph of -tan used for stems that end in i Wikipedia link: Ethnos360 Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--chan-mch-suffix-jdHG1POZ Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Ye'kwana entries with incorrect language header
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Download raw JSONL data for -chan meaning in All languages combined (5.8kB)

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  "title": "-chan",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: anime and manga fandom",
  "path": [
    "-chan"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-chan",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.