パチンコ

Japanese
パチンコ (pachinko): a pachinko parlor.

Etymology

Appears from the Taishō period in the early 1900s.

Compound of ぱちん (pachin, onomatopoeia for a small hard thing striking something else; compare English kaching) +‎ 子 (-ko, suffix used to form nouns, often diminutive).

A pinball-like children's game was first called ガチャンコ (gachanko) of similar derivation, with this more gambling-oriented machine becoming popular from around 1947.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) パチンコ [pàchíńkó] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [pa̠t͡ɕĩŋko̞]

Noun

パチンコ • (pachinko) 

  1. a form of vertical pinball used for gambling, sometimes found in arcades
  2. a slingshot, stonebow
  3. (slang) a pistol

Usage notes

The slingshot sense may be more commonly spelled in hiragana, as ぱちんこ.

Derived terms
  • パチンコ台(だい) (pachinkodai, “pachinko machine”)
  • パチンコ屋(や) (pachinko-ya, “pachinko parlor”)

Descendants
  • → Chinese: 柏青哥 (bóqīnggē)
  • → English: pachinko

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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