shunga

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English

A shunga print

Etymology

From Japanese 春画, from Middle Chinese (t͡ʃʰwin "spring", by extension "sexual", "erotic") + (hwɛ̀ "painting").

Noun

shunga (uncountable)

  1. A style of Japanese erotic art
    • 2007 October 12, Roberta Smith, “Art in Review”, in New York Times[1]:
      The works confound stereotypes of Japanese etiquette, even as they update the tradition of the anatomically explicit shunga print.

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Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

shunga

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しゅんが

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tanga, with the first syllable replaced with shu-. Compare shuta (from puta) and shupatid (from kapatid).

Pronunciation

Adjective

shungá (Baybayin spelling ᜐ᜔ᜌᜓᜅ)

  1. (gay slang, colloquial) foolish; idiotic
    Synonyms: tanga, engot

Derived terms