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See also: Hentai, hantai, and hontai

hentai on Wikipedia

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/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛntaɪ

Noun

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)

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
- 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
- 2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia‎:
  X defines adult content as […]
  This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".

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

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: 裡番 / 里番 (zh) (lǐfān), 本子 (zh) (běnzi)
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)
Korean: 헨타이 (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

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

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Etymology

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

Noun

hentai

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

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

hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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
accusative	gen.	hentain	hentait
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
abessive		hentaitta	hentaitta
instructive		—	hentain
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

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More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Possessive forms of hentai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		hentaini	hentaini
accusative	nom.	hentaini	hentaini
accusative	gen.	hentaini	hentaini
genitive		hentaini	hentaideni hentaitteni
partitive		hentaitani	hentaitani
inessive		hentaissani	hentaissani
elative		hentaistani	hentaistani
illative		hentaihini	hentaihini
adessive		hentaillani	hentaillani
ablative		hentailtani	hentailtani
allative		hentailleni	hentailleni
essive		hentainani	hentainani
translative		hentaikseni	hentaikseni
abessive		hentaittani	hentaittani
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	hentaineni

second-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		hentaisi	hentaisi
accusative	nom.	hentaisi	hentaisi
accusative	gen.	hentaisi	hentaisi
genitive		hentaisi	hentaidesi hentaittesi
partitive		hentaitasi	hentaitasi
inessive		hentaissasi	hentaissasi
elative		hentaistasi	hentaistasi
illative		hentaihisi	hentaihisi
adessive		hentaillasi	hentaillasi
ablative		hentailtasi	hentailtasi
allative		hentaillesi	hentaillesi
essive		hentainasi	hentainasi
translative		hentaiksesi	hentaiksesi
abessive		hentaittasi	hentaittasi
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	hentainesi

first-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		hentaimme	hentaimme
accusative	nom.	hentaimme	hentaimme
accusative	gen.	hentaimme	hentaimme
genitive		hentaimme	hentaidemme hentaittemme
partitive		hentaitamme	hentaitamme
inessive		hentaissamme	hentaissamme
elative		hentaistamme	hentaistamme
illative		hentaihimme	hentaihimme
adessive		hentaillamme	hentaillamme
ablative		hentailtamme	hentailtamme
allative		hentaillemme	hentaillemme
essive		hentainamme	hentainamme
translative		hentaiksemme	hentaiksemme
abessive		hentaittamme	hentaittamme
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	hentainemme

second-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		hentainne	hentainne
accusative	nom.	hentainne	hentainne
accusative	gen.	hentainne	hentainne
genitive		hentainne	hentaidenne hentaittenne
partitive		hentaitanne	hentaitanne
inessive		hentaissanne	hentaissanne
elative		hentaistanne	hentaistanne
illative		hentaihinne	hentaihinne
adessive		hentaillanne	hentaillanne
ablative		hentailtanne	hentailtanne
allative		hentaillenne	hentaillenne
essive		hentainanne	hentainanne
translative		hentaiksenne	hentaiksenne
abessive		hentaittanne	hentaittanne
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	hentainenne

third-person possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		hentainsa	hentainsa
accusative	nom.	hentainsa	hentainsa
accusative	gen.	hentainsa	hentainsa
genitive		hentainsa	hentaidensa hentaittensa
partitive		hentaitaan hentaitansa	hentaitaan hentaitansa
inessive		hentaissaan hentaissansa	hentaissaan hentaissansa
elative		hentaistaan hentaistansa	hentaistaan hentaistansa
illative		hentaihinsa	hentaihinsa
adessive		hentaillaan hentaillansa	hentaillaan hentaillansa
ablative		hentailtaan hentailtansa	hentailtaan hentailtansa
allative		hentailleen hentaillensa	hentailleen hentaillensa
essive		hentainaan hentainansa	hentainaan hentainansa
translative		hentaikseen hentaiksensa	hentaikseen hentaiksensa
abessive		hentaittaan hentaittansa	hentaittaan hentaittansa
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	hentaineen hentainensa

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Derived terms

hentsu

hentai on French Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

^{(aspirated h)}IPA^(key): /ɛn.taj/
Audio: (file)

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

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

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

hentai

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

hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

Adjective

hentai

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.

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Romanization

hentai

Rōmaji transcription of へんたい
Rōmaji transcription of ヘンタイ

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁẽˈtaj/ [hẽˈtaɪ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁẽˈtaj/ [χẽˈtaɪ̯]

Hyphenation: hen‧tai

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

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

Etymology

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

Noun

hentai m (plural hentais)

hentai

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

hentai

Etymology

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

Noun

hentai c

hentai (pornographic anime or manga)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Declension of *hentai*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hentai	hentais
singular	definite	hentaien	hentaiens
plural	indefinite	—	—
plural	definite	—	—

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See also

anime
manga

References

Fula Ordboken

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)

hentai (sexual or pornographic anime or manga)

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