ぺちゃんこ

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of ぺちゃん (pechan, “in a flattened or crushed manner”, adverb) + こ (-ko, noun-forming diminutive suffix).[1][2][3]

First attested in 1908.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

ぺちゃんこ • (pechanko) -na (adnominal ぺちゃんこな (pechanko na na), adverbial ぺちゃんこに (pechanko ni ni))

  1. [from 1908] flat, flattened
    タイヤがぺちゃんこ
    taiya ga pechanko
    the tire is flat
  2. crushed, squashed, flattened
    地(じ)震(しん)でぺちゃんこにつぶれた
    jishin de pechanko ni tsubureta
    crushed flat in an earthquake
  3. [from 1929] (figurative) defeated, deflated, crushed
    議(ぎ)論(ろん)してぺちゃんこに遣(や)り込(こ)める
    giron shite pechanko ni yarikomeru
    crush (defeat soundly) with an argument

Noun

ぺちゃんこ • (pechanko) 

  1. (informal, slang) something flat, something that has been flattened
    • 2014 December 17, Takashi Kamei, “Kami no kei no pechanko ni naru riyū [The reason hair becomes flattened]”, in kame38.blog hairlife‎:
      それは髪(かみ)の生(は)え方(かた)や寝(ね)癖(ぐせ)よるものであれば、スタイリングで補(ほ)正(せい)できるのですがそれができないくらい「ぺちゃんこ」の状(じょう)態(たい)なら注(ちゅう)意(い)が必(ひつ)要(よう)かもしれません。
      Sore wa kami no hae kata ya neguse yoru mono deareba, sutairingu de hosei dekiru no desu ga sore ga dekinai kurai “pechanko” no jōtai nara chūi ga hitsuyō kamoshiremasen.
      If it is due to the way the hair grows or simply bed head, it can be corrected with styling, but you must take care not to get to a nearly unsalvageable “pechanko” condition.

See also

References
  1. “ぺちゃんこ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. “ぺちゃんこ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  4. 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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