hentai

See also: Hentai

English

Etymology

From Japanese 変態 (へんたい) (hentai, “one who has (perverted) sexual drives to a great extent; hentai”), from an abbreviation for 変態性欲者 (hentai seiyoku sha, “perverted person”), from Middle Chinese 變 (MC pˠiᴇn^H, “"change", "alter"”) + 態 (MC tʰʌi^H, “"status", "state"”). Compare Mandarin 變態／变态 (biàntài, “perverted”).

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.

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: 變態 (zh), 变态 (zh) (biàntài)

• Czech: hentai m
• Danish: hentai
• Dutch: hentai
• Esperanto: hentajo
• Estonian: hentai (et)
• Finnish: hentai (fi)
• French: hentai (fr) m
• Galician: hentai
• German: Hentai (de) m, f, n
• Greek: χεντάι (chentái)
• Hebrew: הנטאי‎‎ m (hentay)
• Hindi: हेनतई (hentaī)
• Hungarian: hentai (hu)
• Indonesian: hentai
• Italian: hentai (it)

• Japanese: 変態 (ja) (へんたい, hentai), ヘンタイ (hentai), H (ja) (etchi), エッチ (ja) (etchi)
• Korean: 헨타이 (hentai), 변태 (ko) (byeontae)
• 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, biến thái (vi)

See also

• (work of anime): anime, ecchi, manga, yaoi, yuri

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of Japanese sex terms

Anagrams

• Ianthe, Tehani, in heat, tehina, thiane

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Japanese 変態 (hentai, “one who has (perverted) sexual drives to a great extent; hentai”), from an abbreviation for 変態性欲者 (hentai seiyoku sha, “perverted person”), from Middle Chinese 變 (pjèn, “change, alter”) + 態 (tʰòi, “status, state”).

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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French

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 (hentai, “one who has (perverted) sexual drives to a great extent; hentai”), from an abbreviation for 変態性欲者 (hentai seiyoku sha, “perverted person”), from Middle Chinese 變 (pjèn "change", "alter") + 態 (tʰòi "status", "state") (compare Mandarin biàntài 变态 "perverted").

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hentai

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

Adjective

hentai

1. pornographic

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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)