アダルトビデオ

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from adult +‎ video,[1] equivalent to アダルト (adaruto) + ビデオ (bideo).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) アダルトビ​デオ [àdárútóbíꜜdèò] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [a̠da̠ɾɯ̟ᵝto̞bʲide̞o̞]

Noun

アダルトビデオ • (adaruto bideo) 

  1. (pornography) adult video, pornographic video
    • 1999, Kiyoshi Ōshima, Fumajime na nō [Insincere brain], →ISBN, page 46:
      いまの日(に)本(ほん)人(じん)男(だん)性(せい)にとって、アダルトビデオは欠(か)かせない娯(ご)楽(らく)の一(ひと)つになっているらしい。
      Ima no Nihonjin dansei ni totte, adaruto bideo wa kakasenai goraku no hitotsu ni natte iru rashī.
      For contemporary Japanese men, adult videos seem to be one of the indispensable amusements.
    • 2015, Atsuhiko Nakamura, Adaruto bideo bijinesu no shogeki [Adult video business crash], →ISBN, page 1973:
      裏(うら)ビデオや海(かい)賊(ぞく)版(ばん)市(し)場(じょう)を除(のぞ)いたアダルトビデオの市(し)場(じょう)規(き)模(ぼ)は、せいぜい 500(ごひゃく)億(おく)円(えん)程(てい)度(ど)だろう。
      Ura bideo ya kaizokuban shijō o nozoita adaruto bideo no shijō kibo wa, seizei gohyakuoku-en teido darō.
      Removing underground video and the piracy market, the scale of the adult video market is at most around 50 billion yen.

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • English: JAV
  • Chinese: AV

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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