"アル" meaning in Japanese

See アル in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

IPA: [a̠ɾɯ̟] Forms: aru [romanization]
Etymology: Mimicing erhua ("Chinese 兒 /儿") in northern Chinese dialects. Or, from kyōwa-go (協和語). Etymology templates: {{bor|ja|zh|兒}} Chinese 兒 /儿, {{lw|ja|協和語}} 協和語 Head templates: {{ja-pos|particle}} アル • (aru)
  1. (fiction) Stereotypical sentence-final particle used by Chinese. Related terms (mimicking Koreans): ニダ (nida)
    Sense id: en-アル-ja-particle-R4Ij0bUE Categories (other): Fiction, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese katakana, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese particles, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 49 45 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 38 58 3 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of Japanese katakana: 79 21 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 86 14 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 89 11 Disambiguation of Japanese particles: 94 6 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 89 11 Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing Disambiguation of 'mimicking Koreans': 70 30
  2. (offensive, ethnic slur) Mimicking Chinese speech; ching chong Tags: ethnic, offensive, slur
    Sense id: en-アル-ja-particle-BVTPdIqB Categories (other): Japanese ethnic slurs

Alternative forms

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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 2026-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (7de0cf9 and 9452535). 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.

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