It's not an explicitly pornographic term over there iirc. I think the full word (futanari) literally means 'intersex', 'hermaphrodite', or some approximation of that general idea.

Still an interesting choice for a cat name ofc. Maybe someone more familiar with the language and culture than myself will come along and give us a bit more context cause I am genuinely curious lol

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago

Literal translation would be "two-being" but yes it's used for hermaphrodite. The cat's name is probably just "two".

[–] lath@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I vaguely recall "Fu" meaning "wind" or breeze. S If so, Futa might mean "feeling the breeze" or "moving with the wind" or "fart master". Who knows.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It would make me really, really, really happy if his name was Fart Master.

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I thought 'kaze' was wind? Ig it wouldn't be too surprising to learn that they have different words for different kinds of wind or for wind during different seasons or something like that

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and Katze is cat in German

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kami means god in Japanese. It also means hair. Kami Katze.

[–] lath@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'd love it too, but I may have made a faux pas in this case.
It's quite possible Fu has nothing to do with wind and my mind screwed me over with its remembrance.

[–] AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's kind of funny how none of you decided to just... search it up 😆 Futari = two people; futanari = two + shape; futa = two, second. This is what happens when people learn Japanese from ~~hentai~~ anime (I did too back in the day), lmao.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I put out an open invite to correct me/fill in the blanks because I enjoy learning from people more than I do from search engines. And I learned what little japanese I know from ~~hentai~~ manga and anime 🤓

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Unless it's some kind of contraction (which is possible), it most likely means "two" here.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago

it just means two, it's less inherently noteworthy than 6 in sweden (literally "sex")

[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta support his booty when you hold him