(17 Nov 2022, 15:52 )Like Ra Wrote: [ -> ]Interestingly, "女体化" translates as "feminisation" 😊
Literally "female body transformation", so in a way yes it would be "feminisation" but only of the (percieved) body and for a temporary period; far from the feminisation of the mind/personality that aims to be permanent/semi-permanent brainwashing you usually find in western hypnosis.
(17 Nov 2022, 22:42 )Dan Wrote: [ -> ]Literally "female body transformation"
Oh, right, 体 is karada (body)! But what is a difference between 体 and 身 (as in zentai)? Apparently, they even pronounced the same (-tai-) in combinations (ah, not always).
身化 is translated as disguise or incarnation, though.
Would 女身化 make a difference?
(also
https://www.likera.com/blog/wp/archives/59)
(17 Nov 2022, 23:15 )Like Ra Wrote: [ -> ] (17 Nov 2022, 22:42 )Dan Wrote: [ -> ]Literally "female body transformation"
Oh, right, 体 is karada (body)! But what is a difference between 体 and 身 (as in zentai)? Apparently, they even pronounced the same (-tai-) in combinations (ah, not always).
身化 is translated as disguise or incarnation, though.
Would 女身化 make a difference?
(also https://www.likera.com/blog/wp/archives/59)
Well, kanji are kanji and words are words. It doesn't really help that some kanji are also words, but those are more of a special case than a norm; Japanese started as a spoken language and didn't have its own alphabet since way after using the kanji as a pseudo-alphabet. Now it has two alphabets that are still in use on top of the kanji system.
Like in english there's synonyms and quasi-synonyms (slight difference in nuance or tone); it's just more convoluted and less "natural" since it's a different system entirely.
身体 is a more sciency-word than 体, and used in 身体能力 for example. 女身化 doesn't exist because 女身 doesn't exist but 女体 exists as a word, and in this case 化 acts a bit like a suffix, the english equivalent would be "ation"? as it means "to be made(transformed) into", 収益化 is monetisation for example, lit. "made into revenue".