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hentai

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈhɛntaɪ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛntaɪ

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Japanese, countable, uncountable

Topics: lifestyle, media, pornography, sexuality

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: anime, manga

History

Etymology

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変(へん)態(たい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変(へん)態(たい)性(せい)欲(よく)者(しゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

Across languages

Translations

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Arabic: هِنْتَاي (hintāy) — work of sexual art
  • Asturian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Azerbaijani: hentay — work of sexual art
  • Belarusian: хэнта́й (xentáj) — work of sexual art
  • Belarusian: хента́й (xjentáj) — work of sexual art
  • Bulgarian: хента́й (hentáj) — work of sexual art
  • Chinese Mandarin: 裡番 /里番 (lǐfān) — work of sexual art
  • Chinese Mandarin: 本子 (běnzi) — work of sexual art
  • Czech: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Danish: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Dutch: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Esperanto: hentajo — work of sexual art
  • Estonian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Finnish: hentai — work of sexual art
  • French: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Galician: hentai — work of sexual art
  • German: Hentai — work of sexual art
  • Greek: χεντάι (chentái) — work of sexual art
  • Hebrew: הנטאי (hentay) — work of sexual art
  • Hindi: हेनतई (hentaī) — work of sexual art
  • Hungarian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Indonesian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Italian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai) — work of sexual art
  • Japanese: エロアニメ (eroanime) — work of sexual art
  • Japanese: エロ漫画 (eromanga) — work of sexual art
  • Korean: 헨타이 (hentai) — work of sexual art
  • Malay: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Marathi: हेन्ताइ (hentāi) — work of sexual art
  • Norwegian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Persian: هنتای (hentây) — work of sexual art
  • Polish: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Portuguese: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Romanian: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Russian: хента́й (xentáj) — work of sexual art
  • Serbo-Croatian: хентај — work of sexual art
  • Spanish: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Swedish: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Tagalog: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Thai: เฮ็นไต (hen-dtai) — work of sexual art
  • Turkish: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj) — work of sexual art
  • Urdu: ہینتائی (hentaī) — work of sexual art
  • Uzbek: hentai — work of sexual art
  • Vietnamese: hentai — work of sexual art