hentai

See also: Hentai, hantai, and hontai

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛn.taɪ/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

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

Translations

a work of anime that contains sexual art (esp. manga or anime)

• Albanian: hentai
• Arabic: هِنْتَاي‎ m (hintāy)
• Asturian: hentai
• Belarusian: хэнта́й m (xentáj), хента́й m (xjentáj)
• Bulgarian: хента́й m (hentáj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 里番 (zh), 本子 (zh)

• Czech: hentai m
• Danish: hentai
• Dutch: hentai (nl)
• Esperanto: hentajo
• Estonian: hentai (et)
• Finnish: hentai (fi)
• French: hentai (fr) m
• Galician: hentai
• German: Hentai (de) m or f or n
• Greek: χεντάι (chentái)
• Hebrew: הנטאי‎ (he) m (hentay)
• Hindi: हेनतई (hentaī)
• Hungarian: hentai (hu)
• Indonesian: hentai (id)
• Italian: hentai (it)
• Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai)
• Malay: hentai
• Marathi: हेन्ताइ (hentāi)
• Norwegian: hentai
• Persian: هنتای‎ (hentây)
• Polish: hentai (pl) n
• Portuguese: hentai (pt) m
• Romanian: hentai (ro)
• Russian: хента́й (ru) m (xentáj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хентај m

• Spanish: hentai (es) m
• Swedish: hentai
• Tagalog: hentai (tl)
• Thai: เฮ็นไต (hen-dtai)
• Turkish: hentai
• Ukrainian: хента́й (uk) m (xentáj)
• Urdu: ہینتائی‎ (hentaī)
• Uzbek: hentai
• Vietnamese: hentai (vi)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of Japanese sex terms

Anagrams

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

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English hentai, from Japanese 変態 (hentai).

Noun

hentai

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

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Finnish

Etymology

From English hentai, from Japanese 変態 (hentai).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hentai

1. hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

Declension

Inflection of hentai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		hentai	hentait
genitive		hentain	hentaiden hentaitten
partitive		hentaita	hentaita
illative		hentaihin	hentaihin
		singular	plural
nominative		hentai	hentait
accusative	nom.	hentai	hentait
	gen.	hentain
genitive		hentain	hentaiden hentaitten
partitive		hentaita	hentaita
inessive		hentaissa	hentaissa
elative		hentaista	hentaista
illative		hentaihin	hentaihin
adessive		hentailla	hentailla
ablative		hentailta	hentailta
allative		hentaille	hentaille
essive		hentaina	hentaina
translative		hentaiksi	hentaiksi
instructive		—	hentain
abessive		hentaitta	hentaitta
comitative		—	hentaineen

Possessive forms of hentai (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	hentaini	hentaimme
2nd person	hentaisi	hentainne
3rd person	hentainsa

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key): /ɛn.taj/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

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

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Indonesian

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Adjective

hentai

1. pornographic

Further reading

• “hentai” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Japanese

Romanization

hentai

1. Rōmaji transcription of へんたい

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Portuguese

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

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

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Spanish

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

1. hentai