prepubescent girl; young girl; childlike young woman
Colloquial abbreviation of ロリータ. Refers to a young or young-looking girl, often with a nuance of cuteness or innocence. Can be used neutrally or in otaku contexts.
See also: ロリータ
あの子はまだ小学生だけど、ロリっぽい雰囲気がある。
That kid is still in elementary school, but she has a loli-like vibe.
彼はロリキャラが好きだ。
He likes loli characters.
Her clothes and vibe are very lolita-style.
He is said to be a lolicon.
その漫画にはロリ的な描写がある。
That manga has lolicon-like depictions.
彼女はロリ顔なので年齢より若く見られる。
She has such a childlike face that she's mistaken for younger than she is.
ロリ is a casual clipped form of ロリータ, and both can describe a young or young-looking girl, though ロリータ also names the literary work and fashion style.
ロリ is often used as a shortened, more casual stand-in for ロリコン when talking about attraction to young girls or a person who has it.
炉利 is the fuller slang spelling for a young/childlike girl, while 炉 is the shortened, more casual net-slang form of the same term.
ショタ refers to sexual interest in young boys, while ロリ is the parallel slang term for sexual interest in young girls.
Standard katakana spelling; the word is usually written in kana.
Ateji (phonetic) spelling; rarely used.
Ateji (phonetic) spelling; rarely used.
Abbreviation of ロリータ (Lolita), from the title of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Entered Japanese through otaku and manga subcultures.