"萌え" meaning in Japanese

See 萌え in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [mo̞e̞] Audio: Native Moe Pronunciation.ogg Forms: 萌え [canonical] (ruby: ()), moe [romanization]
Etymology: The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 萌える (moeru, “to bud, sprout; be aroused”). The "feelings of affection towards a fictional character" sense likely first appeared in the early 1990s. Head templates: {{ja-noun|もえ}} 萌(も)え • (moe)
  1. budding, sprouting
    Sense id: en-萌え-ja-noun-6Yj-Vv6P
  2. (anime, manga slang) moe: feelings of affection towards a fictional character Tags: slang Categories (topical): Japanese fiction
    Sense id: en-萌え-ja-noun-VFqz9jYl Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 19 67 14 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 16 71 13 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 17 70 13 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 30 43 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 17 70 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 48 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 76 11 Topics: anime, broadcasting, comics, film, literature, manga, media, publishing, television
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 萌え萌え (moemoe) (ruby: (), ()), 萌え車 (moesha) (ruby: (), (しゃ)), 萌え袖 (moesode) (ruby: (), (そで)), 萌え年賀状 (moe nengajō) (ruby: (), 年賀状(ねんがじょう)), 萌え豚 (moebuta) (ruby: (), (ぶた)), 萌え要素 (moe yōso) (ruby: (), 要素(ようそ)), ギャップ萌え (gyappu moe) (ruby: ()), 工場萌え (kōjō moe) (ruby: 工場(こうじょう), ()) Related terms: 尊い (tōtoi) (ruby: (とうと))

Verb

IPA: [mo̞e̞] Audio: Native Moe Pronunciation.ogg Forms: 萌え [canonical] (ruby: ()), moe [romanization]
Etymology: The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 萌える (moeru, “to bud, sprout; be aroused”). The "feelings of affection towards a fictional character" sense likely first appeared in the early 1990s. Head templates: {{ja-verb form|もえ}} 萌(も)え • (moe)
  1. imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of 萌える (moeru) [ichidan]: budding, sprouting
    Sense id: en-萌え-ja-verb-C6nPW1nh
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        [
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      "word": "萌え豚"
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      "roman": "moebuta",
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          "萌",
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          "豚",
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          "工場",
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          "萌",
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Download raw JSONL data for 萌え meaning in Japanese (5.2kB)

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    "萌え"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "萌え",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "萌え"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "萌え",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.