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bishounen

bishounen is the alternative spelling of bishonen.

Meaning of bishonen

Noun

bishonen (uncountable)

  1. An Asian aesthetic of young men whose beauty (and sex appeal) transcends the boundary of gender or sexual orientation, found in manga, etc.
    • Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*A5OWo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Questions about bishounen

What is bishounen the alternative spelling of?
Bishounen is the alternative spelling of bishonen.

Words near bishounen in the dictionary

  1. Bishopville
  2. bishopweed
  3. bishopwise
  4. bishopwort
  5. bishoujo
  6. bishounen
  7. bisht
  8. Bishton
  9. bishy barnabee
  10. bishy barnabees
  11. bishydroxamic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bishounen (page history and authors); bishonen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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