少年愛

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Chinese

early youth; juvenile; youngster
to love; affection; to be fond of
to love; affection; to be fond of; to like
 
trad. (少年愛) 少年 愛
simp. (少年爱) 少年 爱

Pronunciation

Noun

少年愛

  1. pederasty

Japanese

Kanji in this term
少 年 愛
しょう
Grade: 2 		ねん
Grade: 1 		あい
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Etymology

少(しょう)年(ねん) (shōnen, “boy”) + 愛(あい) (ai, “love”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

 少年愛 on Japanese Wikipedia
 少年愛 (少女漫画) on Japanese Wikipedia

少(しょう)年(ねん)愛(あい) • (shōnen'ai) 

  1. pederasty, love toward adolescent boys
    • 2008, Kiryū Misao, Sekai jōshi taizen: ‘ai’ to ‘shi’ to ‘eros’ no bigaku [World collection of lovers’ suicide: aesthetics of ‘love’ and ‘death’ and ‘eros’], page 1:
      人(にん)間(げん)の肉(にく)体(たい)、とくに均(きん)整(せい)のとれた青(せい)年(ねん)の肉(にく)体(たい)はもっとも美(うつく)しいものとして称(しょう)賛(さん)された。同(どう)性(せい)の裸(ら)身(しん)に触(ふ)れる機(き)会(かい)の多(おお)いことは、いやでも若(わか)者(もの)に少(しょう)年(ねん)愛(あい)を目(め)覚(ざ)めさせずにはおかなかった。
      Ningen no nikutai, tokuni kinsei no toreta seinen no nikutai wa mottomo utsukushī mono to shite shōsansareta. Dōsei no rashin ni fureru kikai no ōi koto wa, iya de mo wakamono ni shōnen'ai o mezamesasezu ni wa okanakatta.
      The human body, especially the well-proportioned body of a young man, was widely admired as the greatest beauty. The many opportunities to come into contact of with naked bodies of the same sex could not help but awaken a sense of pederasty in young men.
  2. (manga) yaoi, boy's love, shounen ai (a subgenre of manga depicting love affairs between young men or boys)

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