"へっちゃら" meaning in Japanese

See へっちゃら in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [he̞t̚t͡ɕa̠ɾa̠]
Etymology: Shift from 平ちゃら (hei chara). The gemination may suggest that this was originally an emphatic form; modern dictionaries treat this as essentially a synonym. First cited to 1952. Head templates: {{ja-adj|infl=な}} へっちゃら • (hetchara) -na (adnominal へっちゃらな (hetchara na), adverbial へっちゃらに (hetchara ni)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=. に|attributive=. な|conditional=. なら(ば)|conjunctive=. で|continuative=. で|degree=さ|formal=. です|formal_negative=. で は ありません|formal_negative2=. じゃ ありません|formal_negative_past=. で は ありません でした|formal_negative_past2=. じゃ ありません でした|formal_past=. でした|hypothetical=. なら|imperative=. で あれ|imperfective=. だろ|informal_negative=. で は ない|informal_negative2=. じゃ ない|informal_negative_past=. で は なかった|informal_negative_past2=. じゃ なかった|informal_past=. だった|kana=|lemma=へっちゃら|provisional=. だったら|terminal=. だ|volitional=. だろう}} Forms: hetchara [romanization], へっちゃらな [adnominal], へっちゃらに [adverbial], no-table-tags [table-tags], へっちゃらだろ [imperfective, stem], hetchara daro [imperfective, stem], へっちゃらで [continuative, stem], hetchara de [continuative, stem], へっちゃらだ [stem, terminative], hetchara da [stem, terminative], へっちゃらな [attributive, stem], hetchara na [attributive, stem], へっちゃらなら [hypothetical, stem], hetchara nara [hypothetical, stem], へっちゃらであれ [imperative, stem], hetchara de are [imperative, stem], へっちゃらではない [informal, negative], へっちゃらじゃない [informal, negative], hetchara de wa nai [informal, negative], hetchara ja nai [informal, negative], へっちゃらだった [informal, past], hetchara datta [informal, past], へっちゃらではなかった [informal, negative, past], へっちゃらじゃなかった [informal, negative, past], hetchara de wa nakatta [informal, negative, past], hetchara ja nakatta [informal, negative, past], へっちゃらです [formal], hetchara desu [formal], へっちゃらではありません [formal, negative], へっちゃらじゃありません [formal, negative], hetchara de wa arimasen [formal, negative], hetchara ja arimasen [formal, negative], へっちゃらでした [formal, past], hetchara deshita [formal, past], へっちゃらではありませんでした [formal, negative, past], へっちゃらじゃありませんでした [formal, negative, past], hetchara de wa arimasen deshita [formal, negative, past], hetchara ja arimasen deshita [formal, negative, past], へっちゃらで [conjunctive], hetchara de [conjunctive], へっちゃらなら(ば) [conditional], hetchara nara (ba) [conditional], へっちゃらだったら [conditional, past], hetchara dattara [conditional, past], へっちゃらだろう [volitional], hetchara darō [volitional], へっちゃらに [adverbial], hetchara ni [adverbial], へっちゃらさ [noun-from-adj], hetcharasa [noun-from-adj]
  1. calm, composed, easygoing, unbothered Wikipedia link: Daijisen, ja:松村明

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Shift from 平ちゃら (hei chara).\nThe gemination may suggest that this was originally an emphatic form; modern dictionaries treat this as essentially a synonym.\nFirst cited to 1952.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hetchara",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらな",
      "roman": "hetchara na",
      "tags": [
        "adnominal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらに",
      "roman": "hetchara ni",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara daro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara da",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらな",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらなら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara nara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらであれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de are",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara datta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらなら(ば)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara nara (ba)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara dattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara darō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらに",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetcharasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "infl": "な"
      },
      "expansion": "へっちゃら • (hetchara) -na (adnominal へっちゃらな (hetchara na), adverbial へっちゃらに (hetchara ni))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": ". に",
        "attributive": ". な",
        "conditional": ". なら(ば)",
        "conjunctive": ". で",
        "continuative": ". で",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": ". です",
        "formal_negative": ". で は ありません",
        "formal_negative2": ". じゃ ありません",
        "formal_negative_past": ". で は ありません でした",
        "formal_negative_past2": ". じゃ ありません でした",
        "formal_past": ". でした",
        "hypothetical": ". なら",
        "imperative": ". で あれ",
        "imperfective": ". だろ",
        "informal_negative": ". で は ない",
        "informal_negative2": ". じゃ ない",
        "informal_negative_past": ". で は なかった",
        "informal_negative_past2": ". じゃ なかった",
        "informal_past": ". だった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "へっちゃら",
        "provisional": ". だったら",
        "terminal": ". だ",
        "volitional": ". だろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "calm, composed, easygoing, unbothered"
      ],
      "id": "en-へっちゃら-ja-adj-pOQOjDsy",
      "links": [
        [
          "calm",
          "calm"
        ],
        [
          "composed",
          "composed"
        ],
        [
          "easygoing",
          "easygoing"
        ],
        [
          "unbothered",
          "unbothered"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Daijisen",
        "ja:松村明"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "へっちゃら"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[he̞t̚t͡ɕa̠ɾa̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "へっちゃら"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Shift from 平ちゃら (hei chara).\nThe gemination may suggest that this was originally an emphatic form; modern dictionaries treat this as essentially a synonym.\nFirst cited to 1952.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hetchara",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらな",
      "roman": "hetchara na",
      "tags": [
        "adnominal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらに",
      "roman": "hetchara ni",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara daro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara da",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらな",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらなら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara nara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらであれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de are",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara datta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらではありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらじゃありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de wa arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ja arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらなら(ば)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara nara (ba)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara dattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらだろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara darō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらに",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetchara ni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へっちゃらさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hetcharasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "infl": "な"
      },
      "expansion": "へっちゃら • (hetchara) -na (adnominal へっちゃらな (hetchara na), adverbial へっちゃらに (hetchara ni))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": ". に",
        "attributive": ". な",
        "conditional": ". なら(ば)",
        "conjunctive": ". で",
        "continuative": ". で",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": ". です",
        "formal_negative": ". で は ありません",
        "formal_negative2": ". じゃ ありません",
        "formal_negative_past": ". で は ありません でした",
        "formal_negative_past2": ". じゃ ありません でした",
        "formal_past": ". でした",
        "hypothetical": ". なら",
        "imperative": ". で あれ",
        "imperfective": ". だろ",
        "informal_negative": ". で は ない",
        "informal_negative2": ". じゃ ない",
        "informal_negative_past": ". で は なかった",
        "informal_negative_past2": ". じゃ なかった",
        "informal_past": ". だった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "へっちゃら",
        "provisional": ". だったら",
        "terminal": ". だ",
        "volitional": ". だろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese adjectives",
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese hiragana",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms spelled with ちゃ",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese な-na adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "calm, composed, easygoing, unbothered"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "calm",
          "calm"
        ],
        [
          "composed",
          "composed"
        ],
        [
          "easygoing",
          "easygoing"
        ],
        [
          "unbothered",
          "unbothered"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Daijisen",
        "ja:松村明"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "へっちゃら"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[he̞t̚t͡ɕa̠ɾa̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "へっちゃら"
}

Download raw JSONL data for へっちゃら meaning in Japanese (6.5kB)

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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "へっちゃら"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "へっちゃら",
  "trace": ""
}

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