Etymology

josei

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Today it means: A class of manga written for an older female audience. Full definition →

Japanese 女性
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from女性“woman”
  2. English todayjosei

Borrowed from Japanese 女性 (josei, “woman”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.