Korean slang profile
잔차족
janchajok
Bicycle riders
People who use bicycles for transportation or enjoy riding them.
- Expanded form
- 자전차족bicycle riders
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2010
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
날씨가 풀리자 자전거 도로에 잔차족이 많아졌다.
As the weather warmed, more 잔차족 appeared on the cycle path.
02Documented history
- 2010The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection lists the headword “잔차족” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This expression was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2009 new-word collection. The collection explains it as a contraction of 자전차족. It contains a shortened form of a word for bicycle. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword and definition in the 2010 collection were checked. The original re-quoted articles were not directly opened, so their dates were not used as firstSeen. The original coinage and path of spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2009년 신어 자료집 (국립국어원·전주대학교 한국어문화원)Published 2010Original source checked Nov 14, 2026