shunga
/ˈʃʊŋə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the ancient Indian Shunga Empire that flourished between 187 and 78 B.C.E.
Example Sentences
- "The works confound stereotypes of Japanese etiquette, even as they update the tradition of the anatomically explicit shunga print."
- "Under Shunga patronage, the core of the Great Stupa, thought to date from the era of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka (r. ca. 273–232 B.C.), was enlarged to its present diameter of 120 feet, covered with a stone casing, topped with a balcony and umbrella, and encircled with a stone railing."
Etymology
From Japanese 春画, from Middle Chinese 春 (t͡ʃʰwin "spring", by extension "sexual", "erotic") + 畫 (hwɛ̀ "painting").