oshi
noun
oshi is a noun meaning “A person's favorite VTuber, idol, or character, especially one they actively support and promote” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-S-H-I, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oshi is oshis.
What does oshi mean?
noun
- 1
A person's favorite VTuber, idol, or character, especially one they actively support and promote.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of oshi
- oshis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oshi?
Oshi appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).
Where does oshi come from?
From Japanese 推(お)し (oshi).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).