"ちょんぼ" meaning in Japanese

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Noun

Forms: chonbo [romanization]
Etymology: From 錯和 (chonbo, tsōhō), a mahjong term for declaring a win without a legal hand. Head templates: {{ja-noun}} ちょんぼ • (chonbo)
  1. an inadvertent mistake
    Sense id: en-ちょんぼ-ja-noun-c9bO3BQN Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese verbs without transitivity, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 60 40 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 53 47 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 53 47 Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 49

Verb

Etymology: From 錯和 (chonbo, tsōhō), a mahjong term for declaring a win without a legal hand. Head templates: {{ja-verb-suru}} ちょんぼする • (chonbo suru) suru (stem ちょんぼし (chonbo shi), past ちょんぼした (chonbo shita)) Forms: ちょんぼする [canonical], chonbo suru [romanization], ちょんぼし [stem], ちょんぼした [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], ちょんぼし [error-unrecognized-form], chonbo shi [error-unrecognized-form], ちょんぼする [error-unrecognized-form], chonbo suru [error-unrecognized-form], ちょんぼすれ [error-unrecognized-form], chonbo sure [error-unrecognized-form], ちょんぼせよ [error-unrecognized-form, imperative, literary], ちょんぼしろ [colloquial, error-unrecognized-form, imperative], chonbo seyo [error-unrecognized-form, imperative, literary], chonbo shiro [colloquial, error-unrecognized-form, imperative], ちょんぼされる [passive], chonbo sareru [passive], ちょんぼさせる [causative], ちょんぼさす [causative], chonbo saseru [causative], chonbo sasu [causative], ちょんぼできる [potential], chonbo dekiru [potential], ちょんぼしよう [volitional], chonbo shiyō [volitional], ちょんぼしない [negative], chonbo shinai [negative], ちょんぼせず [continuative, negative], chonbo sezu [continuative, negative], ちょんぼします [formal], chonbo shimasu [formal], ちょんぼした [perfective], chonbo shita [perfective], ちょんぼして [conjunctive], chonbo shite [conjunctive], ちょんぼすれば [conditional, hypothetical], chonbo sureba [conditional, hypothetical]
  1. to inadvertently make mistakes
    Sense id: en-ちょんぼ-ja-verb-L5F8JoKj Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese verbs without transitivity, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 53 47 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 53 47 Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 49
     
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      "form": "ちょんぼされる",
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      ]
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      "form": "chonbo sareru",
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      "form": "ちょんぼさせる",
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      "form": "ちょんぼさす",
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      "form": "chonbo saseru",
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      "form": "chonbo sasu",
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      "form": "ちょんぼできる",
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      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
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      "form": "chonbo dekiru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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    {
      "form": "ちょんぼしよう",
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      "form": "chonbo shiyō",
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "ちょんぼしない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "chonbo shinai",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "negative"
      ]
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      "form": "ちょんぼせず",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "negative"
      ]
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      "form": "chonbo sezu",
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      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "ちょんぼします",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chonbo shimasu",
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        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちょんぼした",
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        "perfective"
      ]
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      "form": "chonbo shita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
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      "form": "ちょんぼして",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
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      "form": "chonbo shite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
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      "form": "ちょんぼすれば",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      ]
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      "form": "chonbo sureba",
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      "form": "chonbo shi",
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      "form": "ちょんぼする",
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      "form": "chonbo suru",
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      "form": "ちょんぼすれ",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "chonbo sure",
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      "form": "ちょんぼせよ",
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        "imperative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ちょんぼされる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chonbo sareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "ちょんぼさせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "ちょんぼさす",
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      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
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      "form": "chonbo saseru",
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      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "chonbo sasu",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちょんぼできる",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chonbo dekiru",
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    {
      "form": "ちょんぼしよう",
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      "form": "chonbo shiyō",
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    },
    {
      "form": "ちょんぼしない",
      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
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      "form": "chonbo shinai",
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      "tags": [
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    },
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      "form": "ちょんぼせず",
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      "form": "chonbo sezu",
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    },
    {
      "form": "ちょんぼします",
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      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chonbo shimasu",
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        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちょんぼした",
      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
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      "form": "chonbo shita",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "ちょんぼして",
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      "form": "chonbo shite",
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      "form": "ちょんぼすれば",
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Download raw JSONL data for ちょんぼ meaning in Japanese (4.9kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). 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.