See くるくる on Wiktionary
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{
"form": "くるくる",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "クルクル",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "kurukuru",
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"romanization"
]
}
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"2": "クルクル",
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},
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},
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},
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},
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"spinning"
],
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"spinning",
"spinning"
]
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"onomatopoeic"
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"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
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}
],
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"wrapping around"
],
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"onomatopoeic"
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"tirelessly working"
],
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"tirelessly"
]
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"other": "くるくる"
},
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"ipa": "[kɯ̟ɾɯ̟kɯ̟ɾɯ̟]"
},
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"audio": "Ja-Kurukuru.oga",
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"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese onomatopoeias",
"Japanese terms with Atamadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
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"form": "くるくる",
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"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "クルクル",
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"canonical"
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},
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"form": "kurukuru",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
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}
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"spinning"
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],
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],
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"onomatopoeic"
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},
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"ipa": "[kɯ̟ɾɯ̟kɯ̟ɾɯ̟]"
},
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}
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"msg": "unrecognized head form: optionally as くるくると (kurukuru to)",
"path": [
"くるくる"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "adverb",
"title": "くるくる",
"trace": ""
}
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