honcho

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˈhɑn.t͡ʃoʊ/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

From Japanese 班(はん)長(ちょう) (hanchō, “squad leader”), from 19th c. Mandarin 班長 /班长 (bānzhǎng, “team leader”). Probably entered English during World War II: many apocryphal stories describe American soldiers hearing Japanese prisoners-of-war refer to their lieutenants as hanchō.

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