Chankoro

Chankoro (Japanese: ちゃんころ or チャンコロ, etymology is unclear,^[2][3] Ogata^[4] suggests "pigtailed fellow" while Shih states that it means "Qing slave"^[5]) is a Sinophobic ethnic slur^[6] used by the Japanese since the end of the Qing dynasty^[2] and it was also an expression of insult to the Taiwanese people during the Taiwan under Japanese rule.^[7]

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^[1]

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)".^[3]

In Korean

After Japan annexed Korea, the Japanese word chankoro entered the Korean language as jjangkkolla (Korean: 짱꼴라), which evolved into the current jjangkkae ^[ko] (Korean: 짱깨), and jjangkkae has become a representative derogatory term for Chinese people in Korea.^[8]

See also

• Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan
• Ching chong
• Chink, a similar slur in English
• Racism in Japan