hentai

See also: Hentai, hantai, and hontai

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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): /ˈhɛn.taɪ/

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

2. Transcription of Japanese 変態 (hentai, “pervert”).
   • 2017 April 10, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS and Android, scene: Season 5, Chapter 7, Part 10:

     ― Enju: “You’re so perverse! Hentai!”

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)
• Bengali: হেনটাই (henṭai)
• Bulgarian: хента́й m (hentáj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 里番, 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 m (hentay)
• Hindi: हेनतई (hentaī)
• Hungarian: hentai (hu)

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

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of Japanese sex terms

Further reading

• hentai on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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

• 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 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 Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik 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)