hu

epicene neologism nominative nonstandard singular third-person

(neologism) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

Japanese Meaning

性別に中立な三人称単数主語代名詞。heやsheに対応する形で、性別を限定せずに使われる代名詞。

What is this buttons?

hu said hu would arrive by seven, but hu called to ask us to delay dinner.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その人は7時に到着すると言っていたが、夕食を遅らせてほしいと電話してきた。

Details

Sense（1）

(neologism) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

Hu is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in hus solutions of each and all a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural.

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Sense（2）

(neologism) them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.

One of his favorite metaphors for the historian, drawn from the "Preface" to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, likens hu to the owl of Minerva, whose flight at dusk provided the setting for mature reflection on the day that had passed.

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