Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

pelo chino

English translation:

frizzy hair

Added to glossary by Edward Tully
Aug 27, 2006 22:42
18 yrs ago
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Spanish term

pelo chino

Spanish to English Law/Patents Law: Contract(s) Mexican child support document
I was told that this means "curly or kinky hair". Is this true?

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frizzy hair

tends to be a little critical, so I think frizzy may be better than just curly
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33 mins

True!

Here are some references, the first explains the origin:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:qeKQFa-tmQUJ:www.forodees...

Si tienes pelo rizado, no te extrañe que un mexicano se refiera a ti como “el chino”. Y tú pensarás: “¿Por qué? Si nunca he visto a un chino con pelo rizado”. En realidad, el adjetivo tiene origen en la palabra quechua: “china” (hembra, muchacha). Las chinas indígenas, generalmente, fungían como sirvientas. Fue así que “china o chino”, pasó a ser nombre genérico para la servidumbre. Después, tocó a los esclavos africanos ser “los chinos”, y estos, sí que tenían el pelo rizado. De ahí quedó, en México, que “chino” se convirtiera en adjetivo para las personas con este tipo de pelo.



Pero si el apodo refiere del pelo, pelo rojo - red, pelo negro - blackie, pelo rubio - blondie, pelo chino (en México significa rizado) - curly está bien y ...
forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=178915 - 87k

Pelo chino is a tighter type of curly hair. There are Central American countries that use "colocho". Perhaps "estilo a la Afro" could be the answer for such ...
lmri.ucsb.edu/pipermail/reformanet/2001-March/006645.html - 7k
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29 mins

curly hair

although there's some reference to it meaning the opposite "straight" (in cuba).

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Note added at 39 mins (2006-08-27 23:22:10 GMT)
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http://www.lindisima.com/pelo/rizado.htm -curly
http://chicas123.blogspot.com/2005/03/la-chica-de-cabello-ch... ((ADults onlY)) -straight

http://images.google.de/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=ope...

both

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Note added at 43 mins (2006-08-27 23:25:46 GMT)
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no, ok - now that i had a better look at "la chica del pelo chino", it's obviously curly. :))
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20 hrs

kinky hair

Curly hair es cabello rizado.
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