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[maganona]

How do you say "shemale" in Japanese?

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[happymrlocust]

Would that be more of a genre word though, akin to Hentai?

Unless it does literally does mean what it says in the wiki... something I'm not entirely sure I trust in any shape size or form. :)

[elena]

Well, from looking up the two different kanji it gives, one meaning 'promoted' and the other meaning appearance (where futa is the kanji for two in both choices), it makes sense to me. A woman with male genitals has been given something "better", in a traditional japanese mindset. The appearance of being of two different genders also makes sense.

[happymrlocust]

Oh that's pretty neat all told.

I wish, at this point, I understood Japanese far better than I do. Or at all, come to think of it.

[nekokaze]

Conceiving 成 as really dealing with "promotion" here is probably heavily misleading. I don't see any reason to seek some sociological explanation based on contextual translation possibilities. Just having 成り as "become" or "change" seems fine.

[maganona]

Is it possible to use the Chinese word 人妖 in Japanese as well?

[gavinoftheufo]

Never heard the word, and it only shows up on one of my big kanji dictionaries with what seems to be a literal translation of the Chinese term, possibly the original meaning of the word. Not a very pleasant term.

[maganona]

Ahm... Futanari is not exacly a shemale. It's rather a hermaphrodite, intersexual or smth alike.

[shemale]

Not always. A lot of them are drawings of women with dicks, balls, and no vag.

And "intersex" (or intersexed, or intersexual) is the preferred nomenclature now.