Etymology

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Japanese ニューハーフ
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  1. Japanese · calque ofニューハーフ
  2. Japanese · calque ofニューハーフ
  3. English todaynewhalf

Calque of Japanese ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu). ニューハーフ is wasei eigo, from English.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.