鮮人
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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鮮 | 人 |
せん Grade: S | じん Grade: 1 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
Shortening of 朝鮮人 (chōsenjin, “Korean person”).
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) せんじん [sèńjíń] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA(key): [sẽ̞n(d͡)ʑĩɴ]
Noun
鮮人 • (senjin)
- (dated, colloquial) Korean (person)
- 鮮人ニ対スル迫害ニ関シ告諭ノ件
- senjin ni taisuru hakugai ni kanshi kokuyu no kudari
- Statement on the persecution of Koreans (1923, issued by the second Yamamoto cabinet)
- 1930, Taneda Santōka, 行乞記 [Gyōkotsuki]:
- 鮮人はダラシがないことは日本人同様、ツケアガルことは日本人以上、支那人は金貯め人種だ、行商人の中で酒でも飲んでゐる支那人をみたことがない。
- Senjin wa darashi ga nai koto wa nihonjin dōyō, tsukeagaru koto wa nihonjin ijō, shinajin wa kanetame jinshu da, gyōshōnin no naka de sake demo nondewiru shinajin o mita koto ga nai.
- The Koreans are similar to the Japanese in their festiveness, and tend to get carried away even easier than us, but the Chinese are a stingy race. I have never seen a Chinese man drinking among pedlars.
- 鮮人はダラシがないことは日本人同様、ツケアガルことは日本人以上、支那人は金貯め人種だ、行商人の中で酒でも飲んでゐる支那人をみたことがない。
- 鮮人ニ対スル迫害ニ関シ告諭ノ件
Derived terms
- 不逞鮮人 (futei senjin, “Korean who opposed Japanese rule”, literally “insubordinate Korean”)
- 怪鮮人 (kaisenjin)