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The Japanese Chin (Japanese: 狆, chin), also known as the Japanese Spaniel, [1] is a toy dog breed, being both a lap dog and a companion dog, with a distinctive heritage. History [ edit ]
In Japanese, the surname is transliterated Chin (ちん). In Korean it is transliterated Jin or Chin (진). In Indonesia , many Chinese Indonesians who originally had this surname adopted the Indonesian surname Chandra, Hartanto, and other surnames with the prefix Tan.
Eusoff Chin (full name Mohamed Eusoff bin Chin, born 1936), Malaysian lawyer (Chin is a patronymic) Chin Sian Thang (1938–2021), chairman of the Zomi Congress for Democracy in Myanmar (Burmese names do not have surnames) Botak Chin (1951–1981), Malaysian gangster (botak is an epithet meaning 'bald', and Chin is part of his given name)
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
The Chinese Kāiyuán Tōngbǎo coin (開元通寶), first minted in 621 CE in Chang'an, was the model for the Japanese wadōkaichin. Wadōkaichin ( 和同開珎 ) , also romanized as Wadō-kaichin or called Wadō-kaihō , is the oldest official Japanese coinage , first mentioned for 29 August 708 [ 1 ] on order of Empress Genmei .
Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango (Japanese: 漢語, pronounced, "Han words"), is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese. Most Sino-Japanese words were borrowed in the 5th–9th centuries AD, from Early Middle Chinese into Old Japanese. Some grammatical ...
Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at. The position of things (far away, nearby) and their role in the current interaction (goods, addresser, addressee , bystander) are features of the meaning ...
Literally translated, chindōgu means unusual (珍, chin) tool (道具, dōgu). The term was coined by Kenji Kawakami, a former editor and contributor to the Japanese home-shopping magazine Mail Order Life. In the magazine, Kawakami used his spare pages to showcase several bizarre prototypes for products.