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- Japanese · calque of少女愛
- English todayshoujo ai
Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a calque of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (Japanese 少年愛(しょうねんあい) (shōnen'ai)) using Japanese vocabulary.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.