hentai

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛn.taɪ/

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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 term: ecchi

   • 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

• 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/, [ˈhe̞n̪t̪ɑi̯]
• 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

hentai

1. Rōmaji transcription of へんたい

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