Chankoro
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thumb|A picture of courtesans playing a chankoro game in Okinawa prefecture ([[Iha Fuyū, 1893). The slur is used to stress the subjugated position of Okinawan women]] Chankoro (, etymology is unclear, Ogata suggests "pigtailed fellow" while Shih states that it means "Qing slave") is a Sinophobic ethnic slur used by the Japanese since the end of the Qing dynasty and it was also an expression of insult to the Chinese people.
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It is catalogued under topics including Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan, Anti-Chinese sentiment in Korea and Anti-Chinese slurs.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnophaulism
- Subclass of
- Chinese people
- Image
- A Picture of Courtesans Playing a Chankoro Game in Okinawa Prefecture.png
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- native label
- チャンコロ
- Revised Romanization
- jjangkkae
- name in kana
- チャンコロ
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thumb|A picture of courtesans playing a chankoro game in Okinawa prefecture ([[Iha Fuyū, 1893). The slur is used to stress the subjugated position of Okinawan women]] Chankoro (, etymology is unclear, Ogata suggests "pigtailed fellow" while Shih states that it means "Qing slave") is a Sinophobic ethnic slur used by the Japanese since the end of the Qing dynasty and it was also an expression of insult to the Chinese people.
In the English subtitles of the multilingual Chinese movie Devils on the Doorstep, the term is mostly translated as "Chinese pig(s)"" or "mongrel(s)".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chankoro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.