Seme
Origin 1
Borrowing from grc σῆμα.
Full definition of seme
Noun
- (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.
Origin 2
Verb
- Obsolete form of seem
Origin 3
Noun
- Obsolete form of seam
Origin 4
Adjective
- Obsolete form of semée
Origin 5
Borrowing from ja æ”»ã‚ã‚‹.
Noun
- (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
- 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, "Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 73:BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme
- 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:Sebas has always been the seme.
- 2011, Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, "Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers", in Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (eds. Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog), Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099, page 97:The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.