List of PIXIV tags.
Some artists post their works on Pixiv, a Japanese art site, full of adult art.
But it’s hard to get noticed there when you’re not a native Japanese speaker. So you need to use TAGS to show up in search results.
Here is a list of tags that you can use to label your artwork… or search for the subject yourself, if you are not an artist. Some of them are repeated in appropriate categories.
GENERAL:
へんたい - Hentai (This tag is not necessary for pictures tagged R-18 or R-18G)
無修正 - Uncensored (specifically refers to lack of mosaics or bars over genitals)
エッチ - Ecchi (Pervy, but not outright pornographic)
腐向け - This tag indicates that the picture is intended for audiences who like BL.
漫画 - Manga/cartoon. Lots of meanings.
かわいい - Cute/Kawaii
らくがき - Scribble/sketch, usually with little effort. Scraps. 落書き - Scribble/sketch (this version gets more search results)
無修正 - Uncensored (specifically refers to lack of mosaics or bars over genitals)
原創 - Original (Your own characters/setting, not from a franchise)
アナログ - Analog (Specifically refers to piece not being digital)
全裸 - Naked
裸 - Naked (more search results)
GENRES:
ファンタジー - Fantasy (Genre. Swords and Sorcery, etc)
BL - Boys’ Love
やおい - Yaoi (male/male sexual situations)
少年愛 - Shounen Ai (male/male, but more emotional than sexual)
薔薇 - Bara (Male/Male, but much more masculine. Generally involves burly, muscular characters)
ホモ - Homosexual (usually more masculine. Lit. “Homo”)
触手 - Tentacles
ケモノ - Kemono, Furry (lit. “Beast Person”)
ケモホモ - “Kemohomo,” gay furry
NOTE: I have noticed that there doesn’t seem to be any notable tags for hetero/straight-oriented art, as this is the “default” type of hentai.
CHARACTERS:
少女 - Girl
少年 - Boy 男の子 - Boy (similar meaning to above)
美少年 - “Handsome youth.” Characters who are implied to be as such, in-universe.
原創 - Original (Your own characters/setting, not from a franchise.)
王女 - Ojo/Princess (lit. “King’s Daughter”)
姫 - Hime/Princess (Young lady of high birth, not necessarily royalty)
FEMALE-SPECIFIC:
搾乳 - Milking/Lactation
母乳 - Breast Milk
巨乳 - Big breasts
おっぱい - Tits
少女 - Girl
MALE-SPECIFIC:
少年 - Boy 男の子 - Boy (similar meaning to above)
巨根 - Big cock (usually on explicitly masculine subjects. Bara, etc)
包茎 - Uncut penis (lit. “Phimosis”)
男の娘 - Trap (Otokonoko, lit. “girl-boy”)
女装 - Crossdressing/Drag (specifically, males crossdressing as females)
女装少年 - Crossdressing boy
BDSM-RELATED:
緊縛 - Bondage
SM - S&M (Sado-Masochism)
調教 - Torture (lit. “breaking”)
ラバー - Rubber/Latex
ラバースーツ - Rubber/Latex bodysuit
ボールギャグ - Ball Gag
首輪 - Collar
目隠し - Blindfold
縛り - Shibari (Rope bondage)
くすぐり - Tickling (lit. “Feathers”)
バイブ - Vibrator/Vibration
マゾ - Masochist
陵辱 - Rape/forceful sex
身体に落書き - Body writing (Things written/drawn on skin)
奴隷 - Slave
拘束 - Restraint/restriction
肉便器 - Public-Use slave (lit. “meat urinal”)
メス豚 - Sow/female pig (BDSM context)
正の字 - Positive/Happy character (As opposed to distressed, usually in a BDSM context)
PHYSICAL/SEX ACTS:
アナル - Anal
溢れ精液 - Overflowing semen (as in, leaking out of a recipient)
ボテ腹 - Botehara (distended belly)
輪姦 - Gangbang
ダブルピース - Double-Peace (Making “peace” sign with each hand)
キス - Kiss
まんぐり返し - Piledriver (sexual position, legs WAY back behind head)
逆アナル - Pegging, anal penetration of a male by female or futa (lit. “Reverse Anal”)
ぶっかけ - Bukkake
CLOTHING/COSTUME/APPEARANCE:
下着 - Underwear (Lingerie)
パンツ - Panties
ブリーフ - Briefs
褐色 - Dark Skin (lit. “Brown”)
リボン - Ribbon (hair)
ブロンド - Blonde
道化 - Harlequin/Jester
道化師 - Dokeshi (“Clown”)
着ぐるみ - Pyjama-style costume. (Sort of like a fursuit, but looser. May or may not show the person’s face)
バーコード - Bar Code
陰毛 - Pubic hair
MONSTER/RACE:
触手 - Tentacles
宇宙人 - Alien (lit. “Person from Space.” This is not the same as “gaijin”)
エイリアン - Alien (katakana)
マイリトルポニー - My Little Pony
異種間恋愛 - Interspecies Romance
モンスタ - Monster
モンスター娘 - Monster girl
悪魔 - Demon/Devil
インキュバス - Incubus
夢魔 - Succubus
ネコミミ - Nekomimi (Catgirl)
セリリ - Mermaid
ポケモン - Pokemon
妖精 - Fairy
ハーピー - Harpy
サイボーグ - Cyborg
ドラゴン - Dragon (As depicted in western mythology)
龍 - Dragon (eastern)
FETISHES:
性転換 - Gender Swap (Male becoming an actual female, or vice versa)
ふたなり - Futanari (hermaphrodite, dickgirl, shemale, etc)
合体 - Absorption, Merging (lit. “Coalescence”)
卵 - Eggs/Egg-laying
捕食 - Vore (lit. “Predation”)
Comment below if you know of any other important/popular tags that I missed! Do you have any tags to add?
So helpful
Some of these are wrong or are based on Western definitions of Japanese terms as pseudo-loanwords, so I figured I would give some corrections as I speak Japanese.
へんたい - Hentai means strange, or abnormal, and in Japan it’s not necessarily referring to pornography, hence the reason why you’re not always finding R-18 things in this tag. エロ / ero or ポルノ / poruno is used instead.
腐向け - Fumuke means intended for fans of mxm pairings, slash, yaoi doujinshi, mxm fiction in general, not necessarily canonically BL series.
やおい - Yaoi refers to a specific type of mxm parody comic (doujinshi), but isn’t necessarily sexual.
少年愛 - Shounen ai means pederasty in Japan and can be very sexual. It’s more often used in the context of shotacon nowadays.
薔薇 - Bara means rose. As a result, this tag is mostly full of pictures containing the flower. It is also used as an old-fashioned insult toward gay men that westerners mistakenly use to refer to Japanese erotic gay manga / geicomi. Use the ガチムチ / gachimuchi or マッチョ / macho tag to find more masculine-looking men, instead.
ホモ - Homo considered insulting. You’ll find all sorts of body types here, not just GMPD guys. It refers to mxm in general.
男の娘 - Otokonoko - Refers to an AMAB character that could easily pass as a girl due to their feminine appearance. Most are crossdressers, though this isn’t always the case. 男の娘 that do crossdress would be under the 女装子 / josou ko umbrella, but not all 男の娘 are 女装子. Otoko no ko is a pun that replaces the 子 / ko character usually seen in otoko no ko (meaning boy) with 娘 / ko character meaning “daughter”, so they become “boy daughters”.
The stuff about breasts and milking isn’t female specific. Male lactation may pop up in those tags.
Same deal with the penises. Newhalf and futanari often show up in those tags. It’s not male specific.
speaking of which:
ふたなり - Futanari refers specifically to a mythical type hermaphrodite. The “futa” in this means “two”, the nari is “parts”, so it refers to the fact that the character has both penis and vagina (and usually has breasts as well). They’re usually considered to be ‘female’ in identity, though this isn’t always the case. (see: Satan from Devilman Crybaby) A lot of people misuse the term and are actually confusing it with newhalf.
ニューハーフ - Newhalf refers to an AMAB person in the entertainment business or sex work whose upper half is considered “female” (breasts due to hormones or surgery) and lower half is considered “male” (penis). Some will choose to later get vaginoplasty. While this is often translated in English to “sh*male” (a slur), the usage of “newhalf” in Japan is closer to Thailand’s “phuying praphet song”. This term more describes a transfeminine person’s line of work than their identity. In the context of erotic anime and manga it can be used to refer to any girl with a penis (not just AMAB transfems, but also people who we would probably consider intersex in the real world, as well as those who have ‘grown’ penises due to magic etc.). But it’s mostly associated with transfems in the water trade.
Here are some more tags to add to the list!
女装子- Josou ko: (Literally female-clothing-child) Umbrella term for male characters (of all ages) that crossdress.
雄んなの子 - Onna no ko: Refers to an AFAB character that could easily pass as a boy due to their masculine apperance. Onna no ko is a pun that replaces the “o” part of “onna” (girl) with 雄 / o character meaning male animal or an archaic word for “husband”. Also seen as 女の息子 and 女の漢 (same readings)
メス男子 - Mesudanshi: Similar to ‘femboy’ in English. Mesu means ‘female animal’, and danshi means boy. A male character with traditionally ‘female’ secondary sex characteristics such as wide hips or breasts. Also seen as ビッチ男子 / bicchidanshi (“bitch-boy”).
イケ女ン -Ikemen: An adult female character that looks like a handsome / beautiful man. A pun on ikemen where the メ / me character is replaced with 女 / me (woman). If also a crossdresser, they are called 男装の麗人 / dansou no reijin (male-clothed-beauty). English equivilent in fandom circles is “bifauxnen”.
漢女 - Otome: An incredibly manly-looking female character. (e.g. Sakura Oogami from Dangan Ronpa) A play on words where the word 乙女 / otome (maiden) has the 乙 character replaced with 漢 / otoko (man among men).
男ふたなり - Otokofutanari: Literally “male futanari”. A male-identified character with both penis and vagina. Breasts are optional. Often seen with situations like 生理男子 / seiri danshi (boys that menstruate) and 妊夫 / ninpu (male pregnancy). In cases where the male character has a vagina but doesn’t have a penis, he would be considered gyakufutanari instead.
逆ふたなり - Gyakufutanari: Literally “reverse futanari”, though this terminology naming is incorrect. Rather than being a sexless character, it refers to a male character with a vagina instead of a penis. カントボーイ / kantobooi is often used, but it’s just a borrowing of the english term “c*ntboy”.
性別不明 -Seibestu fumei: Characters whose genders are not specified or ambiguous
無性別 - Museibetsu: Genderless characters.
無性器 - Museki: Characters without genitalia.
メシウマ - Meshiuma: Schaudenfraude, taking pleasure in other people’s pain
妊夫 / 男性妊娠 - Ninpu / Otoko ninshin: - Mpreg
雄っぱい - Oppai: Usually means “boobs,” but with the first character changed to 雄, which means male animal or an archaic word for husband, this means “male boobs”. Can refer to muscular men’s chests or men with actual breasts.
生理男子 - Seiri danshi: men that menstruate
Also, here’s some feederism and stuffing tags in case that’s your jam.
脂肪フラグ shibou furagu - grease/blubber/lard tag, this is the one you’re gonna see most stuffing content in
自棄食い yakegui - binge eating, stress eating
自棄酒 yakezake - binge drinking, to drown one’s sorrows in alcohol
大食い oogui - heavy eating
完食 kanshoku - eating everything on your plate
満腹 manpuku - full stomach
食べ過ぎ - tabesugi - overeating
腹パンパン hara panpan - bulging belly
両手に食べ物 - ryoute ni tabemono - food in both hands (like a burger in one and an ice cream in the other, and they’re eating both at once)
いっぱい食べる君が好き - ippai taberu kimi ga suki - “I love the you that eats a lot” It’s from a song, originally, but obvs it’s seen some usage as a kink tag in pixiv
If you have a specific fetish, I can probably find a lot of tags for you.
