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”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈhɛntaɪ/

• Audio(Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɛntaɪ

hentai (countable anduncountable,pluralhentaiorhentais)

1. (Japanesepornography) A work ofanime ormanga (or any similar medium) that contains heavilysexual orpornographic art.

   Hypernyms:anime,manga

   Hyponyms:yaoi,yuri

   Coordinate terms:ecchi,pornhwa,pornhua

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

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

   • 2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, inChannel News Asia‎^[1]:

     X defines adult content as[…]
     This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons,hentai or anime".

• Appendix:Glossary of Japanese sex terms

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

FromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

hentai

1. hentai; a work ofanime ormanga (or any similar medium) that contains heavilysexual orpornographic art

FromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

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

hentai

1. hentai(pornographic anime or manga)

FromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

• ^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key):/ɛn.taj/

• Audio:

  (file)

hentai m (pluralhentais)

1. hentai(a work ofanime ormanga—Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static—that contains pornography)

FromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

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

hentai (pluralhentai-hentai)

1. hentai(pornographic anime or manga)

hentai

1. pornographic

• “hentai” inKamus 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

FromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

• Hyphenation:hen‧tai

hentai m (pluralhentais)

1. hentai(a work ofanime ormanga — Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static — that contains pornography)

Borrowed fromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

• IPA^(key):/xenˈtai/[xẽn̪ˈt̪ai̯]
• Rhymes:-ai
• Syllabification:hen‧tai

hentai m (pluralhentais)

1. hentai

FromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

hentai c

1. hentai(pornographic anime or manga)

• anime
• manga

• Fula Ordboken

FromEnglishhentai, a semantic shift fromJapanese変態(へんたい)(hentai,“pervert”).

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

hentai (Baybayin spellingᜑᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜁ)

1. hentai(sexual orpornographicanime ormanga)