tsundere

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ツンデレ (tsundere), from つんつん (tsun-tsun, “in a cross, aloof, or standoffish manner”, adverb) + でれでれ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: tso͞on'dər-ā; IPA^(key): /ˈtsun.dəɹ.eɪ/

Noun

tsundere (plural tsundere or tsunderes)

1. (chiefly Japanese fiction) A cold, nitpicky character, usually a girl, who conceals (without complete success) a bashfulness in the presence of their crush.
   • 2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.

   • 2010 August 14, David Johnston, “Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Even Kaname's rude and overbearing tsundere personality is explained by her having gone to school in the United States where she was socialized to just bluntly say what she thought.

   • 2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157:

     Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tsundere.

Related terms

• dandere, kuudere, kamidere, yandere, deredere, himedere

Translations

character who fits the archetype of being cold or hostile before gradually showing a warm and caring side

• Arabic: تْسُونْدِرِي f (tsūndirī)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傲嬌／傲娇 (zh) (àojiāo)

• French: tsundere (fr) f
• German: Tsundere f
• Italian: tsundere (it) f
• Japanese: ツンデレ (ja) (tsundere)
• Korean: 츤데레 (ko) (cheundere)
• Russian: цу́ндэрэ (ru) n (cúndɛrɛ)
• Thai: ซึนเดเระ (th) (sʉn-dee-ré)
• Ukrainian: цу́ндере n (cúndere)

Adjective

tsundere (comparative more tsundere, superlative most tsundere)

1. Showing qualities typical of a tsundere.
   • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:

     Ah, the cactus. / Truly the most tsundere of plants.

References

• Tsundere ツンデレ at Japanese With Anime

Anagrams

• dentures, detuners, endurest, sederunt, underset, unrested

Japanese

Romanization

tsundere

1. Rōmaji transcription of ツンデレ