See 仄暗い on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"仄(ほの)",
"仄#Japanese"
],
[
"暗(くら)い",
"暗い#Japanese"
],
[
"連濁",
"連濁#Japanese"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "仄",
"2": "ほの-",
"3": "暗い",
"4": "くらい",
"t1": "faintly",
"t2": "dark"
},
"expansion": "仄(ほの) (hono-, “faintly”) + 暗(くら)い (kurai, “dark”)",
"name": "ja-com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "rendaku"
},
"expansion": "rendaku",
"name": "ja-lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "仄暗い"
},
"expansion": "ほのくらい'",
"name": "sortkey"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kurai",
"2": "gurai"
},
"expansion": "The kurai changes to gurai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).",
"name": "rendaku2"
}
],
"etymology_text": "仄(ほの) (hono-, “faintly”) + 暗(くら)い (kurai, “dark”).\nThe kurai changes to gurai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "仄暗い",
"ruby": [
[
"仄",
"ほの"
],
[
"暗",
"ぐら"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗く",
"roman": "honoguraku",
"ruby": [
[
"仄",
"ほの"
],
[
"暗",
"ぐら"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "l",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakaro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗く",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗い",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらい",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗い",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらい",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗けれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗いです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらいです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakute",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗ければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakereba",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakarō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗く",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗さ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurasa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "ほの暗い",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ほのぐらい",
"infl": "i"
},
"expansion": "仄(ほの)暗(ぐら)い • (honogurai) -i (adverbial 仄(ほの)暗(ぐら)く (honoguraku))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms prefixed with 仄 read as ほの",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms read with kun'yomi",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with rendaku",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dim, dimly lit, darkish"
],
"id": "en-仄暗い-ja-adj-EWuLh0Jt",
"links": [
[
"dim",
"dim"
],
[
"dimly",
"dimly"
],
[
"lit",
"lit"
],
[
"darkish",
"darkish"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "薄暗い"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ho̞no̞ɡɯ̟ɾa̠i]"
},
{
"other": "ほのぐらい"
},
{
"other": "ほのぐらい"
}
],
"word": "仄暗い"
}
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"仄(ほの)",
"仄#Japanese"
],
[
"暗(くら)い",
"暗い#Japanese"
],
[
"連濁",
"連濁#Japanese"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "仄",
"2": "ほの-",
"3": "暗い",
"4": "くらい",
"t1": "faintly",
"t2": "dark"
},
"expansion": "仄(ほの) (hono-, “faintly”) + 暗(くら)い (kurai, “dark”)",
"name": "ja-com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "rendaku"
},
"expansion": "rendaku",
"name": "ja-lg"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "仄暗い"
},
"expansion": "ほのくらい'",
"name": "sortkey"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kurai",
"2": "gurai"
},
"expansion": "The kurai changes to gurai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).",
"name": "rendaku2"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "仄暗い",
"ruby": [
[
"仄",
"ほの"
],
[
"暗",
"ぐら"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗く",
"roman": "honoguraku",
"ruby": [
[
"仄",
"ほの"
],
[
"暗",
"ぐら"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "l",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakaro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗く",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗い",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらい",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗い",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらい",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗けれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗いです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらいです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku nakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗くて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakute",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗ければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakereba",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗かろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurakarō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗く",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "honoguraku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "仄暗さ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "ほのぐらさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "honogurasa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "ほの暗い",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"kanji"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ほのぐらい",
"infl": "i"
},
"expansion": "仄(ほの)暗(ぐら)い • (honogurai) -i (adverbial 仄(ほの)暗(ぐら)く (honoguraku))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese adjectives",
"Japanese compound terms",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with manual fragments",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese terms prefixed with 仄 read as ほの",
"Japanese terms read with kun'yomi",
"Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with 仄 read as ほの",
"Japanese terms spelled with 暗 read as くら",
"Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with rendaku",
"Japanese い-i adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"dim, dimly lit, darkish"
],
"links": [
[
"dim",
"dim"
],
[
"dimly",
"dimly"
],
[
"lit",
"lit"
],
[
"darkish",
"darkish"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "薄暗い"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ho̞no̞ɡɯ̟ɾa̠i]"
},
{
"other": "ほのぐらい"
},
{
"other": "ほのぐらい"
}
],
"word": "仄暗い"
}
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