ianfu

1. 1.

   a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II

   “she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman”

   Synonymscomfort woman

   Broaderprostitute

Other forms of ianfu

plural

ianfus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ianfu

What does ianfu mean?

ianfu means "a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II".

How many syllables are in ianfu?

ianfu has 3 syllables: i-an-fu. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for ianfu?

Close synonyms include comfort woman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ianfu a common word?

ianfu is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.