兄ちゃん

Japanese

Kanji in this term
兄
あに > あん
Grade: 2
Irregular
Kanji in this term
兄
にい
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • (Tokyo) あ​んちゃん [áꜜǹchàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
    • IPA(key): [ã̠ɲ̟t͡ɕã̠ɴ]

Noun

兄ちゃん (hiragana にいちゃん, rōmaji nī-chan)

(alternative reading hiragana あんちゃん, romaji an-chan)
  1. (familiar) big bro (elder brother)
  2. (childish) "big bro" (address term used by children when speaking to a young man or boy older than them, who they would consider to be their elder brother)
  3. (informal) boy; lad; chap
    • 1991 March 15, Takahashi, Rumiko, “ＰＡＲＴパート.10　そして拳けん印いんは消きえた [PART.10 The Mark’s Finally Gone]”, in らんま½ [Ranma ½], volume 14 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 162:
      よっ　ええぞ　にいちゃん。
      Yo' ē zo nī-chan.
      Woo, you damn fine, boy.

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