Etymology

shonen

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Today it means: A style of Japanese animation and comics aimed at a younger male audience. Full definition →

Japanese 少年
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The story

  1. Japanese · derived from少年“few years”
  2. English todayshonen

From the Japanese 少年 (shōnen, “few years”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.