짜구배
Korean
Pronunciation
- (Yukjin) IPA(key): /t͡s͈aɡubɛ́/
Noun
짜구배 • (jjagubae)
- (Yukjin) mixed-race person (in Yukjin areas, usually a child of a Russian and a Korean or Chinese)
- Synonym: (Standard Korean) 튀기 (twigi)
- (Yukjin, by extension) multicultural person
- 2019, 곽충구 [Kwak Chung-gu], 두만강 유역의 조선어 방언 사전 [Dictionary of Korean Dialects of the Tumen River Area], volume II, Taehaksa, →ISBN, page 2833:
- 이 연변 사람 다 자구배란 말이오. 이 조선말으 다 잘 아는 게 없고 한족말두 잘 아는 게 없고.
- i Yeonbyeon saram da jagubae-ran mar-i-o. I Joseonmar-eu da jal aneun ge eopgo Hanjongmal-du jal aneun ge eopgo.
- All these people in Yanbian are culturally mixed. They don't know Korean well, and they don't know Chinese well either.
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Alternative forms
- 자구배 (jagubae)
Further reading
- 곽충구 [Kwak Chung-gu] (2019) 두만강 유역의 조선어 방언 사전 [Dictionary of Korean Dialects of the Tumen River Area], volume II, Taehaksa, →ISBN, page 3133