hentai

English Online Dictionary. What means hentai‎? What does hentai mean?

English

Etymology

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛntaɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntaɪ

Noun

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)

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, pornhua

Descendants

• → Cebuano: hentai
• → Finnish: hentai
• → French: hentai
• → German: Hentai
• → Indonesian: hentai
• → Italian: hentai
• → Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai)
• → Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)
• → Polish: hentai
• → Portuguese: hentai
• → Russian: хентай (xentaj)
• → Spanish: hentai
• → Swedish: hentai
• → Tagalog: hentai
• → Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of Japanese sex terms

Anagrams

• Hà Tiên, tahine, Tehani, Thénia, Ianthe, heatin', tehina, in heat, thiane, Hetian

Cebuano

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Noun

hentai

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

Finnish

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hentai

1. hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

Declension

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key): /ɛn.taj/

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

Adjective

hentai

1. pornographic

Further reading

• “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.

Japanese

Romanization

hentai

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hen‧tai

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

1. hentai

Swedish

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Noun

hentai c

1. hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

Declension

See also

• anime
• manga

References

• Fula Ordboken

Tagalog

Etymology

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhentaj/ [ˈhɛn̪.t̪aɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -entaj
• Syllabification: hen‧tai

Noun

hentai (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜁ)

1. hentai (sexual or pornographic anime or manga)