shunga
See also: Shunga
English
Etymology
From Japanese 春画, from Middle Chinese 春 (t͡ʃʰwin "spring", by extension "sexual", "erotic") + 畫 (hwɛ̀ "painting").
Noun
shunga (uncountable)
- 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.
See also
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
shunga
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- siyonga, siyunga, syunga
Etymology
From tanga, with the first syllable replaced with shu-. Compare shuta (from puta) and shupatid (from kapatid).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʃuˈŋa/ [ʃʊˈŋa]
- IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /sjuˈŋa/ [sjʊˈŋa]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: shu‧nga
Adjective
shungá (Baybayin spelling ᜐ᜔ᜌᜓᜅ)
Derived terms
- kashungahan