ハーフ

See also: ハーブ and ハープ

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English half.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ハーフ [háꜜàfù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ha̠ːɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

ハーフ (rōmaji hāfu)

half
a person of mixed race, often Japanese and other ancestry

Derived terms

ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu, “shemale, ladyboy”)

References

1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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