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{
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"1": "mul",
"10": "",
"2": "symbol",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "or",
"6": "",
"7": "or",
"8": "",
"9": "or",
"cat2": "",
"f1lang": "en",
"f1nolink": "",
"f2lang": "en",
"f2nolink": "",
"f3lang": "en",
"f3nolink": "",
"f4lang": "en",
"f4nolink": "",
"head": "",
"head2": "",
"head3": "",
"head4": "",
"image": "",
"nolinkhead": "",
"sc": "Latn",
"sort": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ff",
"name": "mul-symbol"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"pos": "symbol",
"related": [
{
"word": "Wiktionary’s coverage of Fula terms"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"ISO 639-1"
],
"glosses": [
"ISO 639-1 language code for Fula."
],
"links": [
[
"language code",
"language code"
]
],
"qualifier": "international standards",
"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Fula."
]
}
],
"word": "ff"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "Ff",
"tags": [
"uppercase"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"10": "",
"2": "letter",
"3": "lower case",
"4": "",
"5": "upper case",
"6": "Ff",
"7": "",
"8": "ff",
"9": "",
"sc": ""
},
"expansion": "ff (lower case, upper case Ff)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"lower": "ff",
"upper": "Ff"
},
"expansion": "ff (lower case, upper case Ff)",
"name": "cy-letter"
}
],
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"pos": "character",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
"Welsh lemmas",
"Welsh letters"
],
"glosses": [
"The ninth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called èff and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by f and followed by g."
],
"links": [
[
"letter",
"letter"
],
[
"alphabet",
"alphabet"
],
[
"èff",
"èff#Welsh"
],
[
"f",
"f#Welsh"
],
[
"g",
"g#Welsh"
]
],
"tags": [
"letter",
"lowercase"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɛf/",
"tags": [
"standard"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/f(ː)/",
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
"word": "ff"
}
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