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onii-chan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables
oni-i-chan
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Older brother

Etymology

From Japanese お兄(にい)ちゃん (onii-chan).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

onii-chans (plural)

Questions

What does onii-chan mean?
Older brother
Where does onii-chan come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

How to pronounce onii-chan

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