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腹違い and 種違い are ways to refer to siblings born of different mothers/fathers.
Are these terms rude/disrespectful? Or are they about as innocuous as saying
"half-siblings"?

Also, I could open another question, but for bonus points, is ハーフ considered a
rude term to refer to mixed-race people? Or is it totally kosher?
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Are 腹違い (harachigai) and 種違い (tanechigai) rude terms to use when referring to half-siblings?
Generally 種違い or 腹違い is not considered as rude/discriminative, it is simply a
bit oldish. In not-so-frequent occasions to refer to such things, I guess
父親/母親が違う would be used.

That said, I won't be surprised if there are people who claim they should be
avoided mainly because 腹 or 種 may sound treating people as an instrument to
produce children.

As for ハーフ, from the Japanese side, it has no derogatory sense and means
people whose parents are of different nationalities, although it is usually
expected that there's a difference in race. (E.g., a child from a Japanese of
Japanese origin and an American of Japanese origin would be ハーフ technically,
but not typically thought of when speaking of a ハーフ.)

Not sure how it sounds to ハーフ people who understand English natively.

  * [Is the word ハーフ derogatory?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/898/45489)

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[This Wikipedia
article](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95_\(%E6%B7%B7%E8%A1%80\)#%E9%96%A2%E9%80%A3%E7%94%A8%E8%AA%9E)
contains more details on ハーフ, but for most ordinary people, it does not sound
rude. It mentions there is a word ダブル to avoid ハーフ, but I've never heard of it
(sounds like coffee or whisky...)

The word あいのこ is derogatory, but this is rather dated and not really current.
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