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shoujo ai

The English word “shoujo ai” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.
  2. A genre of manga, anime, or hentai featuring lesbian sex and romance; yuri.
  3. Lolicon.

Etymology

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a calque of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (Japanese 少年愛(しょうねんあい) (shōnen'ai)) using Japanese vocabulary.

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