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-chan
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Appendix:Variations of "chan"
English
Etymology 1
From the en ja - familiar suffix ja ちゃん -chan.
Suffix
en anime and manga fandom Appended to a person's name (usually a female, child, a close friend, or an intimate) to add politeness. It is sometimes used to denote cuteness or familiarity.
en -kun -san
en Julien Morein Murdoch Murdoch: A Case Study in Threats to Ontological Security in Far-Right Propaganda https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/showcase/2020/pgl/10/ https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1248&context=showcase 2020-05-03 21 w:Arcadia University Dr. Murdoch and Murdoch-chan form an alliance with a group they refer to as “happas” who are half-white and half-Asian, claiming that they pose no threat to each other, but both stand to lose if ZOG wins. https://web.archive.org/web/20200908020034/https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1248&context=showcase
Translations
nominal affix indicating familiarity
Arabic: ar تشان- -tšān
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 小, cmn 醬
Hindi: hi -चान
Japanese: ja ちゃん -chan
Korean: ko -짱
Marathi: mr -चान
Russian: ru -тян
Thai: th จัง
Ukrainian: uk -чян
Etymology 2
In reference to 4chan, in turn from Futaba Channel (cf. its URL, www.2chan.net, or its alternate names ja ふたばちゃん and ja 双葉ちゃん found on its homepage); hence, derived from en ja チャンネル channeru, from en en channel.
Suffix
en Internet slang Used in the names of imageboards, usually ones that try to emulate 4chan.
Related terms
en chan
Anagrams
en achn Cahn Ch*na
Irish
Suffix
n m
forms verbal nouns from first-conjugation verbs ending in -igh
Derived terms
ga
Japanese
Romanization
ちゃん
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Suffix
mch suffix
allomorph of mch -tan used for stems that end in mch i