fujoshi
fu·jo·shi/fuˈdʒoʊ.ʃi/noun
fujoshi is a noun meaning “A female fan of media featuring romantic and/or sexual relationship between men” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-J-O-S-H-I and has 3 syllables (fu·jo·shi), and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fujoshi is fujoshis.
What does fujoshi mean?
noun
- 1
slangA female fan of media featuring romantic and/or sexual relationship between men.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fujoshi?
- UK /fuːˈdʒəʊ.ʃiː/
- US /fuˈdʒoʊ.ʃi/
- Australia /fʉːˈdʒɐʉ.ʃiː/
Fujoshi has 3 syllables, split fu·jo·shi in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-fujoshi.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fujoshi
- fujoshis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fujoshi?
Fujoshi appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fujoshi in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense female fan of yaoi:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fujoshi, yaoiste |
| Portuguese | fujoshi |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fujoshi come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 腐(ふ)女(じょ)子(し) (fujoshi, literally “rotten girl/woman”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).