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"Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese terms written in foreign scripts",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"ja:Fiction",
"ja:Japanese fiction",
"ja:Literary genres"
],
"glosses": [
"abbreviation of ライトノベル (raito noberu, “light novel”)"
],
"links": [
[
"ライトノベル",
"ライトノベル#Japanese"
],
[
"light novel",
"light novel"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ɾa̠ito̞ no̞be̞ɾɯ̟]"
},
{
"other": "ライトノベル"
},
{
"ipa": "[e̞ɾɯ̟e̞nɯ̟]"
},
{
"other": "エルエヌ"
}
],
"word": "LN"
}
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