hentai

Semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

変態 (hentai) did not originate as a genre in Japanese; this is a development in English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛn.taɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai)

1. A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.

   Hypernyms: anime, manga

   Hyponyms: yaoi, yuri

   Coordinate terms: ecchi, pornhwa

   • 2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:

     There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love

• → Indonesian: hentai
• → Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai)
• → Russian: хентай (xentaj)

• Appendix:Glossary of Japanese sex terms

• Hetian, Hà Tiên, Ianthe, Tehani, in heat, tehina, thiane

From English hentai, from Japanese 変態 (hentai).

hentai

1. hentai; a work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art

From English hentai, from Japanese 変態 (hentai).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhentɑi̯/, [ˈhe̞n̪t̪ɑ̝i̯]
• Rhymes: -entɑi
• Syllabification^(key): hen‧tai

hentai

1. hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

• ^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key): /ɛn.taj/

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hentai m (plural hentais)

1. hentai (a work of anime or manga—Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static—that contains pornography)

From Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “one who has (perverted) sexual drives to a great extent”), from an abbreviation for 変態性欲者 (hentai seiyoku sha, “perverted person”).

• IPA^(key): /hɛn.tai̯/
• Hyphenation: hèn‧tai

hentai (first-person possessive hentaiku, second-person possessive hentaimu, third-person possessive hentainya)

1. A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.

hentai

1. pornographic

• “hentai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

hentai

1. Rōmaji transcription of へんたい
2. Rōmaji transcription of ヘンタイ

Borrowed from English hentai or Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者 (hentai seiyoku sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

• Hyphenation: hen‧tai

hentai m (plural hentais)

1. hentai (a work of anime or manga — Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static — that contains pornography)

hentai m (plural hentais)

1. hentai

hentai c

1. hentai

• anime
• manga

• Fula Ordboken

Borrowed from English hentai (“sexual or pornographic anime or manga”), from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhentaj/, [ˈhɛn.taɪ̯]
• Hyphenation: hen‧tai

hentai (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜁ)

1. hentai (sexual or pornographic anime or manga)