茶番

ちゃばん

Meanings

1. Noun, の-adjective farce; charade
2. Noun person who serves tea
3. short and humorous improvised sketch (originating from Edo-era kabuki)

Kanji

• 茶 tea. Read as チャ.
• 番 number. Read as バン.

Example sentences

• あれは茶番だ。
  That's a farce.
• だが、レーガン政権と最高裁判所に潰される前でさえ、ＯＳＨＡは茶番であった。
  Even before Reagan and the Supreme Court stifled it, OSHA was a farce.

Words containing 茶番

• 茶番劇 (ちゃばんげき) burlesque
• 茶番狂言 (ちゃばんきょうげん) farce
• 茶番的 (ちゃばんてき) farcical

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