<entry id="2332529" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2537350</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>ＢＬ</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ビー・エル</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ビーエル</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="2162260">ボーイズラブ</xref>
<misc>&abbr;</misc>
<s_inf>from the 和製英語 boys love</s_inf>
<gloss>comics or novels about male homosexuality, targeted at young women</gloss>
<gloss>BL</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1736220">船荷証券</xref>
<gloss>bill of lading</gloss>
<gloss>BL</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2010-03-18 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-03-21 22:53:40" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,1 +12,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;male homosexuality (from the wasei "boys love")&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="2162260"&gt;ボーイズラブ&lt;/xref&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;from the 和製英語 boys love&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;male homosexuality&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-03-22 01:01:06" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -20,0 +20,1 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;BL&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-16 05:13:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Reformat initialsms
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -7,0 +8,3 @@
+&lt;reb&gt;ビー・エル&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
@@ -8,0 +12 @@
+&lt;re_inf&gt;&amp;sk;&lt;/re_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-04-16 12:06:10" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_diff>@@ -18,2 +18,2 @@
-&lt;s_inf&gt;from the 和製英語 boys love&lt;/s_inf&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;male homosexuality&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;abbr;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;Boy's Love&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-04-18 11:53:10" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>No case was made for the change. I prefer the previous version.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -18 +18,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;Boy's Love&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;from the 和製英語 boys love&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;male homosexuality&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-02-12 12:58:20" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>Is abbr appropriate here?</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-02-12 13:24:55" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Sombrero1</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Should these two be in one entry? It might be better to split them.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>三省堂国語辞典　第八版
　　ビーエル［ＢＬ］｟名｠〔←(和製)boys love〕
　　　　男性同士の恋愛(れんあい)（をあつかった漫画(まんが)・小説など）。ボーイズラブ。

Daijs has it too
I think it's fine to align the gloss with ボーイズラブ's. I don't think there's a difference in usage and meaning between these two.

[Abbr] should be appropriate here since it just is the abbreviated form of ボーイズラブ.

I just saw both a lot on e.g. twitter when searching for it, daijs and sankoku only have the non-nakaguro form for the first sense. So I'd make it visible at least.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-&lt;re_inf&gt;&amp;sk;&lt;/re_inf&gt;
@@ -19 +18 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;male homosexuality&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;comics or novels about male homosexuality, targeted at young women&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-02-12 21:21:02" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-02-13 02:08:24" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_detl>Surely this is known as BL in English too?</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;BL&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-02-13 03:34:10" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Seems it's from Japanese.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_love
"Boys' love (Japanese: ボーイズ ラブ, Hepburn: bōizu rabu), also known by its abbreviation BL (ビーエル, bīeru), is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters."</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;comics or novels about male homosexuality, targeted at young women&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -19 +19,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;comics or novels about male homosexuality, targeted at young women&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>