How to say "masturbation" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- nounA shortened form of マスターベーション, heard in casual talk; being less common, it is seldom the word you need, and a fuller term is usually the safer choice.
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbA loanword (from German 'Onanie') for the act itself; it belongs to relaxed everyday conversation and can carry a joking nuance.
- 自慰じいnoun, suru verb, intransitive verbA Sino-Japanese word, literally 'self-comfort', with a clinical or written feel; it is at home in medical and academic prose and also renders 'onanism'.
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbThe full English-derived loanword. It is less common and can sound stiff or technical in everyday speech, so it suits careful or explicit writing better than casual talk.
- 手淫しゅいんnoun, suru verb, intransitive verbA bookish Sino-Japanese word, literally 'hand-indecency'; it turns up in clinical or literary prose and also renders 'onanism', but it is seldom the word you want in conversation.
All five denote the act itself, so the choice is one of tone and setting: relaxed loanwords in speech, the full loanword in technical writing, and the Sino-Japanese terms — which also render 'onanism' — in clinical prose.
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Japanese equivalents
- マスmasturbation
- オナニーmasturbation
- 自慰じいmasturbation
- マスターベーションmasturbation
- 手淫しゅいんmasturbation
- 自涜じとくmasturbation
- ずりせんmasturbation (male)
- 一人エッチひとりエッチmasturbation
- オナヌーmasturbation
- 性処理せいしょりsexual relief
- せんずり(male) masturbation
- まんずり(female) masturbation
- 自慰行為じいこうい(act of) masturbation
- セルフプレジャー(female) masturbation
- 自家発電じかはつでんmasturbation
- スコスコmasturbation
- しこしこfap fap
