Japanese Streetslang (2020)

It's easy to create Japanese slang. Use a lot of "sound effect" words (I was walking down the alley and Bwa! the place blew up.), and onomatopoeia or mimesis; such as Baribari (sound of an engine; used when things are running smoothly") Ka-ching (sound of handcuffs, "be arrested") or Bokoboko (sound of hitting something hard, used when beating someone up).
Abbreviation is also a good way to make slang. Japanese tend to take one to three letters in a word, maybe combine it with a couple letters of another word, and use that; such as Sukebo (skateboard), pasokon (personal computer), and rimokom (remote control). Also, you can take the first letter of an English word, or the English spelling of a Japanese word, and use that, like H ('wanna H? Wanna fool around?).
== Slang and Vocab ==
* Aho/Do-aho (Osaka): Idiot/Big idiot.
* Akan (Osaka): Bad, No Good, wrecked.
* Anime: Hand drawn animation from Japan.
* Baka/O-baka: Fool/Super-Fool
* Cho: Super
* Choo-bo: Junior High School Student.
* Dachi/Dachi-ko: friend. choombatta
* Deka: Detective
* Dojin-shi: Fanzine, underground blackbook.
* Etchi: Pervert, Have sex.
* Gaki: Kid, Juves.
* Ge-sen: Game Center
* Hamaru: Play a game or braindance fanatically, immobilized, computer crash.
* Hameru: Attack an enemy's weak points.
* Hamewaza: Shut out enemy's attacks, Unfair fighting style
* Hen na: Strange
* Idol: Young (12 - 20) Corporate entertainer.
* Imbeda: Very old game, Sucker, Sitting duck.
* Keto: Foreigner, White (Chambara).
* Kubi: Get fired from a corp.
* Kuso-Ge: Shitty Game, boring/awful game.
** Kuso: Shit.
* Muzu/Muzui: Difficult (short for "muzukashii")
* Manga: are comics or graphic novels created in Japan or using the Japanese language and conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.
* Mabu-dachi: Best friend.
* Nan-A: South Africa
* Nambei: South America
* Namban/Namban-jin: Euro or Yank
* Nikkei-jin: Japanese-related foreigners.
* OL: Office Lady, a female corporate.
* Omawari: Police.
* Onna-gata/Okama: Female impersonators.
* Otaku: Maniac, A fanatic to their hobby, has a deep understanding of anime, manga, or video games.
* Pampee: Common people, Non-edgerunners, Beavers
* Pu/Pu-taro: Unemployed, Living off the 'rents.
* Ronin: Student who failed entrance exams, out of work.
* Salaryman: Corp.
* Satsu: Police, Cops.
* Sessya: I, Me, Myself.
* Shimeru!: Kill!, Hold on!
* Tame: Waiting for a chance to attack.
* Tansha: Motorcycle.
* Ure-sen: A product that will be a big hit.
* Wakka: Motorcycle (Bosozoku/Teamer)
* Wappa: Handcuffs.
* Yabai: Dangerous.
* Yaku: Drug.
* Yanki Gal/Boy: Girls or boyswith colored hair, earings, nail polish (for girls). This word has no relation to Yankii, or Americans.
* Zako: Weak enemies, low-level Solos.
== Yakuza Slang ==
* Anko: A worker, or smuggling "mule".
* Bon-naka: Gambling den.
* Bon-ya: Bookie.
* Chaka: Handgun.
* Chimpira: Low-level Yakuza, identified by colorful "Big Suit" style.
* Deiri: War (Between Yakuza families).
* Dougu: Handgun (tool)
* Eda: Branch of a Yakuza family.
* Garasu-wari: To fire guns into an opponents window to scare or warm him.
* Gasa-ire: A search by police.
* Blank-gumi: Group (Most Yakuza clans/corporations are named with the family name + gumi. Example: Yamaguchi-gumi. These are listed on their buildings doorplates, or kamban).
* Hine: Police.
* Kamban-mochi: Formal member of a Yakuza family.
* Kasuri: "Protection money" from shops and bars.
* Katagi: Common people, non-Yakuza.
* Koma-su: Win the heart of a woman, then dump her.
* Mama: Pocket money; common event, thing, or person: easy job, O.K.
* Mikajime-ryo: "Insurance Fee" from shops and bars.
* Mom-mom: Tattoos.
* Mori: Bodyguard.
* Niwaba: Territory. (Tekiya)
* Paku-rareru: Be arrested.
* Paku-ru: Arrest.
* Shaba: Common world, Outside of jail.
* Shima: Territory, Also said as Shimamori.
* Shinogi: Work, life, Income.
* Tekiya: Street vendor, Stallman (or Ya-shi, "incense seller")
* Teppo-dama: Hitman.
* Tsutomeru: To go to jail for the family.
* Yaru: To kill.
== Korean Streeslang Influence ==
The lower-class, Cyberpunks, and Toseikai (yakuza-style mobsters) use Korean, with Japanese influences, to make it more offensive to listeners, and because many are second or third generation returnees from Japan.
* Banchoppari: Mixed blood Korean-Japanese.
* Cho/Choso: Communist, ex-North Korean, Terrorist.
* Chongag: Bachelor.
* Chap-sae: Goons, hired muscle, bodyguards.
* Enyon: Japanese woman (derogatory)
* Kyonchari: Policemen or Cops.
* Noje: Slave, lower class, prole.
* Paekch'i: Idiot, fool.
* Pu: Money.
* Sannomu: Idiot.
* Sasaenga: Bastard, troublemaker.
* Tou: Money.
* Uenomu: Japanese man (derogatory)
* Yain: Barbarian, uncouth person.
* Yongsa: Hero.
== Reference ==
PASQUARETTE, C. Pacific Rim Sourcebook. 1st ed. Berkeley CA: R.Talsorian Games, 1994
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