"姉ちゃん" meaning in Japanese

See 姉ちゃん in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ne̞ːt͡ɕã̠ɴ] Forms: 姉ちゃん [canonical] (ruby: (ねえ)), nē-chan [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|ねえ-ちゃん}} 姉(ねえ)ちゃん • (nē-chan)
  1. (familiar) older sister Tags: familiar
    Sense id: en-姉ちゃん-ja-noun-GC~ssSvW Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 98 2 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 99 1
  2. girl
    Sense id: en-姉ちゃん-ja-noun-QxuhxpNn
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: お姉さん (onē-san) (ruby: (ねえ))

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for 姉ちゃん meaning in Japanese (1.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "姉ちゃん",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "姉",
          "ねえ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nē-chan",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ねえ-ちゃん"
      },
      "expansion": "姉(ねえ)ちゃん • (nē-chan)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "onē-san",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "姉",
          "ねえ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "お姉さん"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "older sister"
      ],
      "id": "en-姉ちゃん-ja-noun-GC~ssSvW",
      "links": [
        [
          "older sister",
          "older sister"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(familiar) older sister"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "familiar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "girl"
      ],
      "id": "en-姉ちゃん-ja-noun-QxuhxpNn",
      "links": [
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ne̞ːt͡ɕã̠ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "姉ちゃん"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "姉ちゃん",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "姉",
          "ねえ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nē-chan",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ねえ-ちゃん"
      },
      "expansion": "姉(ねえ)ちゃん • (nē-chan)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "onē-san",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "姉",
          "ねえ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "お姉さん"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese familiar terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "older sister"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "older sister",
          "older sister"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(familiar) older sister"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "familiar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "girl"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ne̞ːt͡ɕã̠ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "姉ちゃん"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.