chink

• n. ひび割れ、音、亀裂
• vi.チリンチリン鳴らす
• vt.チリンチリン鳴らす

中国から作られた蔑称。

擬音語。

chink

chink: English has three words chink. The one denoting the sharp metallic sound [16] is purely onomatopoeic. The one meaning ‘small hole’ [16] is something of a mystery, but it may be an alteration of chine ‘fissure’ [14] (best known today as the term for a coastal ravine in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight), which came from Old English cinu. Chink as a demeaning term for a Chinese person [19] is a facetious formation based on China or Chinese.

chink (n.1)

"a split, crack," 1530s, with parasitic -k + Middle English chine (and replacing this word) "fissure, narrow valley," from Old English cinu, cine "fissure," related to cinan "to crack, split, gape," common Germanic (compare Old Saxon and Old High German kinan, Gothic uskeinan, German keimen "to germinate;" Middle Dutch kene, Old Saxon kin, German Keim "germ;" ), from PIE root *geie- "to sprout, split open." The connection being in the notion of bursting open.

chink (n.2)

"a Chinaman," 1901, derogatory, perhaps derived somehow from China, or else from chink (n.1) with reference to eye shape.

chink (n.3)

"sharp sound" (especially of coin), 1580s, probably imitative. As a verb from 1580s. Related: Chinked; chinking.

1. I noticed a chink of light at the end of the corridor.

廊下の端にある一筋の光に気づいた。

2.He peered through a chink in the curtains.

カーテンの間の隙間を覗き見した。

3.a chink in the curtains

カーテン上のスリット

4.He watched them secretly，through a chink in the wall.

彼は壁の隙間を通して彼らを陰で監視している.

5.Through the chink he saw the fiery morning of high summer.

ここの割れ目から見ると、真夏の真っ赤な朝を見ることができる。