Jjokbari

Jjokbari
Jjokbari
A banner in South Korea reads: "Dokdo! Don't worry, the ghost and jjokbari-catching Marines are here."[1]
A banner in South Korea reads: "Dokdo! Don't worry, the ghost and jjokbari-catching Marines are here."[1]
Korean name
Hangul 쪽발이 or 쪽바리
Revised Romanization Jjokbari
McCune-Reischauer Tchokpari
Japanese name
Kana チョッパリ
Rōmaji Choppari
A pair of Japanese tabi, suggested to have evoked a comparison with pigs' feet

Jjokbari (Korean: 쪽발이) is an ethnic slur in the Korean language used to refer to Japanese people. According to one survey, it was Korea's second-most common slur against Japanese people (ahead of waenom and behind ilbonnom, both meaning roughly "Japanese bastard(s)").[2]

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Origin

The National Institute of the Korean Language notes that it is grammatically a noun, and defines it as:

  1. Walking with only one foot[3]
  2. Foot split into two, two-hooved foot[4]
  3. A word which conveys a disparaging view of Japanese people[5]

Jjokbari is generally accepted as literally meaning "pig's foot".[6] This is suggested to evoke a comparison between the appearance of a pig's cloven hooves and the feet of a person wearing tabi (traditional Japanese-style socks which have a separation between the big toe and its neighbor, to allow the wearing of thonged footwear). Alternatively, it may refer to the resemblance between the sound made by a pigs' hooves and that made by a person wearing geta (traditional Japanese wooden sandals) when they are walking.[7] However, a third theory states that jjok instead means "piece", with the intended implication being that Japanese shoes are incomplete compared to Korean shoes. Unlike Korean-style straw shoes which completely cover the foot, Japanese-style straw shoes consisted only of a sole and straps to bind it to the foot, leaving the top part of the foot exposed.[8]

In Japan

The term has also been borrowed into Japanese language spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan, where it is rendered Choppari.[7] Its usage by Koreans in Japan is roughly comparable in social context to that of honky in the United States.[9] The form ban-jjokbari (literally, "half pig-foot") originated as a derogatory reference to Japanised Koreans during the Japanese colonial period in Korea; later, it came to be used by people in Korea to refer to ethnic Koreans in Japan.[10] The Japanised pronunciation of this form, ban-choppari, is also widely used by Koreans in Japan, either to refer to Japanised Koreans or to people of mixed Japanese and Korean descent.[7][11]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Original: 독도야! 걱정마라, 귀신도 잡고, 쪽바리 잡는 해병대가 있단다
  2. ^ Miyazaki 2001: 23
  3. ^ Original: 한 발만 달린 물건
  4. ^ Original: 발통이 두 조각으로 된 물건
  5. ^ Original: 일본 사람을 낮잡아 이르는 말
  6. ^ Compare with the term for "ham hock", 족발/jokbal
  7. ^ a b c Constantine 1992
  8. ^ Lee 1999
  9. ^ International Herald Tribune 2001-03-24
  10. ^ Kramer 2003: 162-163
  11. ^ Gohl 1976: 139-141

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