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"short person" or "small person" That is not what the word means. According to the japanese wikipedia page, "chibi" is a word that describes something of small height. It also refers to a person of small height. [1]
Chicchanabito Absolutely not sure about the euphonic changes from hito to bito when following a na. ChicchanaHito does sound more natural to me. (more on the topic here)
Origin of the term It actually comes from the verb 禿びる (chibiru), which means "to wear out and become shorter" (for the tip of something). (Source). This also explains why the word is used without any adjective form (i/na). The verb "becoming smaller/shorter" turned into a word describing small things/people.
小人 This reads "kobito" and means a dwarf/midget/pygmy/child. I don't think I ever saw chibi spelled with these kanji (might definitely happen as ateji in litteray texts, manga etc.).
The initial use of 'chibi', chibi proportional style, in recent art history has yet to be documented. If anyone knows the history and origins, please help to fill in the gaps.
Currently there is a chicken and egg question concerning the origins of chibi stylization: Were Japanese video games (notably RPG genre titles) of the early 90's responsible, at least in part, for the popularization of the proportional deformation, or was it a wholly print media related phenomenon? The arguement stems on the fact that technological limitations made the creation of chibi/iconic character representations in video games necessary because of the finite nature of pixels. Along with overcoming this limitation, (new?) styles began to take form in the pixel arts and the question of the origins of chibi have risen.
Understandably, the use of comical proportions similar to chibi are not a totally new occurance of recent times, however the particular strain of large eyed and stubbed legged caricaturizations is assumably a contemporary trend.
It seems you are confusing chibi with superdeformed. Chibi is a more childlike version without the extreme proportions, whereas superdeformed has that more shrunken down look and usually doesn't look childlike.
The style you talk about in RPG titles in the earlie 90s is actually superdeformed and not chibi; this was done because of the hardware limitations at the time.
I don't really know much about it in print media.
Sorry if my English is not that good.
-- 141.76.1.122
I had no problems reading your English. Are you referring to the word "chibi" used in Japanese, or in English? Because loanwords tend to evolve into separate words. For example, the word "mail" in Japanese refers specifically to e-mail. The word "soy," while originally a single word, now means "soy bean" in English and "soy sauce" in Japanese. We should describe words as they are, rather than what one thinks how the words should mean. I was under the impression that "chibi" means "super-deformed" in English. In any case I thik it's hard to state what a new slang term does not mean.
-- Tokek 09:37, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Can't be that hard to find examples with acceptable copyright terms.
The 'Battle Of Chibi' in 'See also' is unrelated to this article.
This article is trash, and not only being incredibly vague and unsourced on the fact of being a "manga" term or not, it also gives absolutely no information on the actual real word itself. Close to an AfD here. freshgavin ΓΛĿЌ 02:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm not entirely sure if it needs to be trashed, but there does need to be more information. From my understanding, the usage of Chibi, both as a name and a form of drawing, has been around much longer than Sailormoon has been. For example, in the original version of Voltron, the character we know as Pidge is constantly refered to as "Chibi", mostly because he is the youngest and shortest of the group. I can't say much about other anime and manga before then, because my knowledge is limited.
LissaChicka
06:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
This article is not much use to anyone not already fairly familiar with anime.
Definitely agree. I added the correct origin of the term (ie. absolutely nothing to do with manga/anime). Someone also said that there is a confusion between SD (super deformed characters) and "chibi", which is a more generic term used for a lot of things. Remka2000 ( talk) 07:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Why the description of the page is the description of one of the external links? Isn't that spam?
Why are the chibi boards on this entry, I couldn't really find much on chibis there, it's barely a reliable source!
Mr. Briggs Inc.
We had a disgruntled member or something spam our board link out in an attempt to flood us with people that would cause us problem. We regret and are sorry that this happened.
216.205.211.188
There is nothing backing up the pronounciation or even listing the alternate pronounciation (chib-ee). If no one makes any changes I will. Timekeeper 20:10, 11 October 2006 (UTC) It's Japanese... there is no alternate pronunciation. It's "cheebee" in English.
If you're going to insist on nominating this for deletion (a really stupid idea - you'll lose), follow proper proceedures as outlined in WP:AfD. Snarfies 18:33, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
This page is looking a lot better. Good job! ~ JohnnyMrNinja 22:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Chibi is a widely used slangy noun in Japan. The definision is
Examples: うちのちび My little boy/kid. ちびというあだ名の少年 a boy nicknamed 'Shorty'. The word is used as a dog/cat's name. The pronunciation of chi is as in Wichita and bi is, not bee, but as in bambi or bibbidi Babbidi Boo. Oda Mari ( talk) 06:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
History of the deletion http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chibi_%28term%29&diff=570426825&oldid=570373447
The usage is too obvious to site any basis. It is common not to describe something regarding discrimination as a formal documentation as some discriminating words are often deleted from some major sites.
http://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B3 2. 年少者。子供。軽んじたり,かわいらしいという気持ちをこめて用いる。 「生意気な-め」 This site shows the meaning similar to the deleted part, but still feels intention to also deleting the meaning of the straight usage for discrimination. 軽んじる meaning "look down on" has relationship with Confucianism(儒教), which has the characteristic thought that younger people should show respect to elder people. This led contrarily elder people look down on younger people in all generations. This is why usually used for children or pets. If you doubt, just try to test it. It's easy. Just call a Japanese friend "Chibi" with non respective voice. Of course, there are the meaning of small and pretty as described but depends on the situation or context. It'll be difficult for foreigners. にょろん ( talk) 17:46, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
I'm not a manga reader but I landed here looking for the meaning of
Chibi-Robo! which is a series of Nintendo video games.
Maybe it could be mentioned after Chibiusa and then the meaning of chibi from Chibi-Robo! could link back to this entry?
Bergamote (
talk)
21:58, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
The following are references that were used in the now merged article (Super deformed):
[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
References
These were all used to source:
"Super deformed, or SD, is a specific style of Japanese caricature"
These sources may be useful when gone through. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:03, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
The following sources were used in external links in the article "Q-version":
Since the article was fully unsourced I just made it a redirect to this one, again going through these sources might add info to the article. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:12, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
I know this debate raged on a few years back, but I just wanted to throw in another perspective. My interpretation has always been that labeling something "SD" (or super deformed) is more about the disproportionately-sized head-to-body ratio. Whereas, "chibi" means small, chubby, and child-like. The two are very often connected and used interchangeably, but that doesn't mean it's entirely correct. Take a look at the toyline for manga/anime series Kinnikuman... There have been many sets of rubber kinkeshi ("Kin" for Kinnikuman, "keshi" short for "keshigomu" meaning eraser), including two distinct sets of SD kinkeshi AND Chibi kinkeshi.
Here's a link to a Brief Guide to Kinkeshi Types on LittleRubberGuys.com. There, you can see the difference between SD and Chibi kinkeshi.
Now I don't know when the chibi vs SD conversation became a point of contention, but I can say that the SD Kinkeshi came out as far back as 1987 with that name. I'm not entirely sure on the release date of the Chibi Kinkeshi line, but it very likely was around the same time. At least, in this instance, there is a distinct, recognizable difference between the two terms. So take that for what it's worth... Thanks for reading! Dahumorist ( talk) 00:30, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
chibi robo and chibi robo zip lash
The result of the move request was: There is consensus for the first move, but not the second one. Since there is no consensus whether there is a primary topic, I will move the dab page to Chibi. ( non-admin closure) ( t · c) buidhe 05:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
– The Japanese term is the clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.
The non-personalized Google search suggested by WP:DPT ( [1]) only returns results about the Japanese term, for as many pages as I tell. The Google Books results ( [2]) seem to bear this out as well. Chibi (slang) gets about x10 the pageviews of Chibi ([ [3]]), and I suspect many of the viewers of the Hubei city article meant to come to the article about the slang. — Goszei ( talk) 23:04, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
A chi i is a deformed anime character 2601:681:4580:2C10:4562:4186:5CD6:6A45 ( talk) 02:09, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
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The contents of the super deformed page were merged into Chibi (style) on 23 March 2018. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
The contents of the Q-version page were merged into Chibi (style) on 23 March 2018. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
"short person" or "small person" That is not what the word means. According to the japanese wikipedia page, "chibi" is a word that describes something of small height. It also refers to a person of small height. [1]
Chicchanabito Absolutely not sure about the euphonic changes from hito to bito when following a na. ChicchanaHito does sound more natural to me. (more on the topic here)
Origin of the term It actually comes from the verb 禿びる (chibiru), which means "to wear out and become shorter" (for the tip of something). (Source). This also explains why the word is used without any adjective form (i/na). The verb "becoming smaller/shorter" turned into a word describing small things/people.
小人 This reads "kobito" and means a dwarf/midget/pygmy/child. I don't think I ever saw chibi spelled with these kanji (might definitely happen as ateji in litteray texts, manga etc.).
The initial use of 'chibi', chibi proportional style, in recent art history has yet to be documented. If anyone knows the history and origins, please help to fill in the gaps.
Currently there is a chicken and egg question concerning the origins of chibi stylization: Were Japanese video games (notably RPG genre titles) of the early 90's responsible, at least in part, for the popularization of the proportional deformation, or was it a wholly print media related phenomenon? The arguement stems on the fact that technological limitations made the creation of chibi/iconic character representations in video games necessary because of the finite nature of pixels. Along with overcoming this limitation, (new?) styles began to take form in the pixel arts and the question of the origins of chibi have risen.
Understandably, the use of comical proportions similar to chibi are not a totally new occurance of recent times, however the particular strain of large eyed and stubbed legged caricaturizations is assumably a contemporary trend.
It seems you are confusing chibi with superdeformed. Chibi is a more childlike version without the extreme proportions, whereas superdeformed has that more shrunken down look and usually doesn't look childlike.
The style you talk about in RPG titles in the earlie 90s is actually superdeformed and not chibi; this was done because of the hardware limitations at the time.
I don't really know much about it in print media.
Sorry if my English is not that good.
-- 141.76.1.122
I had no problems reading your English. Are you referring to the word "chibi" used in Japanese, or in English? Because loanwords tend to evolve into separate words. For example, the word "mail" in Japanese refers specifically to e-mail. The word "soy," while originally a single word, now means "soy bean" in English and "soy sauce" in Japanese. We should describe words as they are, rather than what one thinks how the words should mean. I was under the impression that "chibi" means "super-deformed" in English. In any case I thik it's hard to state what a new slang term does not mean.
-- Tokek 09:37, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Can't be that hard to find examples with acceptable copyright terms.
The 'Battle Of Chibi' in 'See also' is unrelated to this article.
This article is trash, and not only being incredibly vague and unsourced on the fact of being a "manga" term or not, it also gives absolutely no information on the actual real word itself. Close to an AfD here. freshgavin ΓΛĿЌ 02:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm not entirely sure if it needs to be trashed, but there does need to be more information. From my understanding, the usage of Chibi, both as a name and a form of drawing, has been around much longer than Sailormoon has been. For example, in the original version of Voltron, the character we know as Pidge is constantly refered to as "Chibi", mostly because he is the youngest and shortest of the group. I can't say much about other anime and manga before then, because my knowledge is limited.
LissaChicka
06:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
This article is not much use to anyone not already fairly familiar with anime.
Definitely agree. I added the correct origin of the term (ie. absolutely nothing to do with manga/anime). Someone also said that there is a confusion between SD (super deformed characters) and "chibi", which is a more generic term used for a lot of things. Remka2000 ( talk) 07:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Why the description of the page is the description of one of the external links? Isn't that spam?
Why are the chibi boards on this entry, I couldn't really find much on chibis there, it's barely a reliable source!
Mr. Briggs Inc.
We had a disgruntled member or something spam our board link out in an attempt to flood us with people that would cause us problem. We regret and are sorry that this happened.
216.205.211.188
There is nothing backing up the pronounciation or even listing the alternate pronounciation (chib-ee). If no one makes any changes I will. Timekeeper 20:10, 11 October 2006 (UTC) It's Japanese... there is no alternate pronunciation. It's "cheebee" in English.
If you're going to insist on nominating this for deletion (a really stupid idea - you'll lose), follow proper proceedures as outlined in WP:AfD. Snarfies 18:33, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
This page is looking a lot better. Good job! ~ JohnnyMrNinja 22:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Chibi is a widely used slangy noun in Japan. The definision is
Examples: うちのちび My little boy/kid. ちびというあだ名の少年 a boy nicknamed 'Shorty'. The word is used as a dog/cat's name. The pronunciation of chi is as in Wichita and bi is, not bee, but as in bambi or bibbidi Babbidi Boo. Oda Mari ( talk) 06:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
History of the deletion http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chibi_%28term%29&diff=570426825&oldid=570373447
The usage is too obvious to site any basis. It is common not to describe something regarding discrimination as a formal documentation as some discriminating words are often deleted from some major sites.
http://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B3 2. 年少者。子供。軽んじたり,かわいらしいという気持ちをこめて用いる。 「生意気な-め」 This site shows the meaning similar to the deleted part, but still feels intention to also deleting the meaning of the straight usage for discrimination. 軽んじる meaning "look down on" has relationship with Confucianism(儒教), which has the characteristic thought that younger people should show respect to elder people. This led contrarily elder people look down on younger people in all generations. This is why usually used for children or pets. If you doubt, just try to test it. It's easy. Just call a Japanese friend "Chibi" with non respective voice. Of course, there are the meaning of small and pretty as described but depends on the situation or context. It'll be difficult for foreigners. にょろん ( talk) 17:46, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
I'm not a manga reader but I landed here looking for the meaning of
Chibi-Robo! which is a series of Nintendo video games.
Maybe it could be mentioned after Chibiusa and then the meaning of chibi from Chibi-Robo! could link back to this entry?
Bergamote (
talk)
21:58, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
The following are references that were used in the now merged article (Super deformed):
[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
References
These were all used to source:
"Super deformed, or SD, is a specific style of Japanese caricature"
These sources may be useful when gone through. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:03, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
The following sources were used in external links in the article "Q-version":
Since the article was fully unsourced I just made it a redirect to this one, again going through these sources might add info to the article. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 14:12, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
I know this debate raged on a few years back, but I just wanted to throw in another perspective. My interpretation has always been that labeling something "SD" (or super deformed) is more about the disproportionately-sized head-to-body ratio. Whereas, "chibi" means small, chubby, and child-like. The two are very often connected and used interchangeably, but that doesn't mean it's entirely correct. Take a look at the toyline for manga/anime series Kinnikuman... There have been many sets of rubber kinkeshi ("Kin" for Kinnikuman, "keshi" short for "keshigomu" meaning eraser), including two distinct sets of SD kinkeshi AND Chibi kinkeshi.
Here's a link to a Brief Guide to Kinkeshi Types on LittleRubberGuys.com. There, you can see the difference between SD and Chibi kinkeshi.
Now I don't know when the chibi vs SD conversation became a point of contention, but I can say that the SD Kinkeshi came out as far back as 1987 with that name. I'm not entirely sure on the release date of the Chibi Kinkeshi line, but it very likely was around the same time. At least, in this instance, there is a distinct, recognizable difference between the two terms. So take that for what it's worth... Thanks for reading! Dahumorist ( talk) 00:30, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
chibi robo and chibi robo zip lash
The result of the move request was: There is consensus for the first move, but not the second one. Since there is no consensus whether there is a primary topic, I will move the dab page to Chibi. ( non-admin closure) ( t · c) buidhe 05:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
– The Japanese term is the clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.
The non-personalized Google search suggested by WP:DPT ( [1]) only returns results about the Japanese term, for as many pages as I tell. The Google Books results ( [2]) seem to bear this out as well. Chibi (slang) gets about x10 the pageviews of Chibi ([ [3]]), and I suspect many of the viewers of the Hubei city article meant to come to the article about the slang. — Goszei ( talk) 23:04, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
A chi i is a deformed anime character 2601:681:4580:2C10:4562:4186:5CD6:6A45 ( talk) 02:09, 28 January 2023 (UTC)