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"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese hiragana",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese nouns",
"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"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_text": "Extension of and cognate with 共 (tomo, “same, together”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tomo",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "友",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
},
{
"form": "朋",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
},
{
"form": "伴",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
},
{
"form": "侶",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "とも • (tomo)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"friend, companion, comrade, pal"
],
"links": [
[
"friend",
"friend"
],
[
"companion",
"companion"
],
[
"comrade",
"comrade"
],
[
"pal",
"pal"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"member of the same category"
],
"links": [
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"category",
"category"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "とも"
},
{
"ipa": "[to̞mo̞]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Daijisen",
"ja:松村明"
],
"word": "とも"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"共",
"艫",
"鞆",
"朋",
"伴"
],
"senses": [
{
"tags": [
"no-gloss"
]
}
],
"word": "とも"
}
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