See Chin on Wiktionary
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"name": "id-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Indonesian",
"lang_code": "id",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Indonesian entries with incorrect language header",
"Indonesian lemmas",
"Indonesian proper nouns",
"Indonesian surnames",
"Indonesian surnames from Hakka",
"Indonesian terms borrowed from Hakka",
"Indonesian terms derived from Hakka",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from Hakka"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Chin"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "romanization",
"head": "",
"sc": "Latn"
},
"expansion": "Chin",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "romanization",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "ちん"
}
],
"categories": [
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese non-lemma forms",
"Japanese romanizations",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"Rōmaji transcription of ちん"
],
"links": [
[
"Rōmaji",
"romaji"
],
[
"ちん",
"ちん#Japanese"
]
],
"tags": [
"Rōmaji",
"alt-of",
"romanization"
]
}
],
"word": "Chin"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"word": "chini"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ms",
"2": "zh",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Chinese",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "陳"
},
"expansion": "陳／陈 (chén)",
"name": "zh-m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Chinese 陳／陈 (chén).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Chin",
"name": "ms-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Malay entries with incorrect language header",
"Malay lemmas",
"Malay proper nouns",
"Malay surnames",
"Malay surnames from Chinese",
"Malay terms borrowed from Chinese",
"Malay terms derived from Chinese",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Datuk Chin Phui Kong, b. 1923"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from Chinese"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Chin"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Chin meaning in All languages combined (17.5kB)
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"called_from": "form_description/20250107",
"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"Chin"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Chin",
"trace": ""
}
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