Korean slang profile
픽시
piksi
Fixed-gear bicycle
A bicycle whose pedals’ rotation is directly linked to the rear wheel through a fixed gear.
- Expanded form
- fixed gear → fixiefixed gear → fixie
- Other spellings
- 픽시족, fixie
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- 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
자전거 전시에서 픽시의 기어 구조를 살펴봤다.
At the bicycle exhibition, I examined the gear structure of a 픽시.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “픽시”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The short name fixie comes from fixed gear. The checked material explains the term mainly through racing bicycles without brakes. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year. The original describes a racing bicycle without brakes, but the definition is limited to the verified fixed-gear structure.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 7월 4주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026