Help identifying a word?!?!

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Reply #1 - 2008 April 17, 4:34 pm
meolox Member
Registered: 2007-08-31 Posts: 386

I'v search high and low and I just can't find how to write it or if I'm hearing it write, it sounds like じゃん or　じゃじゃん

I hear it on TV when someone writes something down or is finished doing something, for example I saw it on a gameshow where the contestant had to write something on a board and everytime a girl wrote something after it she said じゃじゃん or something similar sounding.

I'd normally ask a Japanese person but I'm behind enemy lines as my Campus network has recently blocked skype.

Anyone know what it is and the meaning, thanks.

Reply #2 - 2008 April 17, 4:37 pm
Ryuujin27 Member
Registered: 2006-12-14 Posts: 824

Oh, I've heard it to. I don't think you'll be able to translate it. It's pretty much like a "I'm finished" kind of noise. I think it's suppose to reference a bell, maybe?

Reply #3 - 2008 April 17, 4:43 pm
Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

It's the Japanese equivalent of "tadaa". It's onomatopoeia (I believe emulating announcing trumpets) and has no actual "meaning".

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Reply #4 - 2008 April 17, 4:47 pm
meolox Member
Registered: 2007-08-31 Posts: 386

Anyone got the correct writing of it? Probably katakana I'm sure or a dictionary definition.

Last edited by meolox (2008 April 17, 4:49 pm)

Reply #5 - 2008 April 17, 4:49 pm
Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

meolox wrote:

Anyone got the correct writing of it? Probably katakana I'm sure.

じゃじゃーん & じゃーん

hiragana

-edit- definition from kenkyuusha shinwaeidaijiten (jaja-n just forwards to this entry)

じゃーん (jān)
〔自慢げに物を見せるときの間投詞〕 Ta-da!

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2008 April 17, 4:50 pm)

Reply #6 - 2008 April 17, 4:55 pm
meolox Member
Registered: 2007-08-31 Posts: 386

Jarvik7 wrote:

meolox wrote:

Anyone got the correct writing of it? Probably katakana I'm sure.

じゃじゃーん & じゃーん

hiragana

-edit- definition from kenkyuusha shinwaeidaijiten (jaja-n just forwards to this entry)

じゃーん (jān)
〔自慢げに物を見せるときの間投詞〕 Ta-da!

Thanks, seems EDICT lists it as "Crash, Bang" which would tie in with the onomatopoeia of it being the sound of trumpets or a fanfare.

I've only ever heard females say this.

Last edited by meolox (2008 April 17, 5:00 pm)

Reply #7 - 2008 April 17, 5:12 pm
Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

meolox wrote:

Jarvik7 wrote:

meolox wrote:

Anyone got the correct writing of it? Probably katakana I'm sure.

じゃじゃーん & じゃーん

hiragana

-edit- definition from kenkyuusha shinwaeidaijiten (jaja-n just forwards to this entry)

じゃーん (jān)
〔自慢げに物を見せるときの間投詞〕 Ta-da!

Thanks, seems EDICT lists it as "Crash, Bang" which would tie in with the onomatopoeia of it being the sound of trumpets or a fanfare.

I've only ever heard females say this.

I have heard males say it, but females seem to use 擬音語／擬態語 more frequently than men.

Reply #8 - 2008 April 17, 9:29 pm
Ryuujin27 Member
Registered: 2006-12-14 Posts: 824

Ahh, right. A trumpet! Not a bell. Duh.

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