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And got called Futa in japan. Hah!
Literal translation would be "two-being" but yes it's used for hermaphrodite. The cat's name is probably just "two".
I vaguely recall "Fu" meaning "wind" or breeze. S If so, Futa might mean "feeling the breeze" or "moving with the wind" or "fart master". Who knows.
and Katze is cat in German
Kami means god in Japanese. It also means hair. Kami Katze.
I'd love it too, but I may have made a faux pas in this case.
It's quite possible Fu has nothing to do with wind and my mind screwed me over with its remembrance.
It's kind of funny how none of you decided to just... search it up 😆 Futari = two people; futanari = two + shape; futa = two, second. This is what happens when people learn Japanese from ~~hentai~~ anime (I did too back in the day), lmao.
Unless it's some kind of contraction (which is possible), it most likely means "two" here.
it just means two, it's less inherently noteworthy than 6 in sweden (literally "sex")