See どう on Wiktionary
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"examples": [
{
"english": "It works? Seems OK.",
"roman": "Dō? Ii n ja nai.",
"text": "どう？いいんじゃない。",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Casual question: It works? Is it OK?"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Call out to horses or cows to control/stop them: Ho! Hoy! Whoa!"
],
"links": [
[
"Ho",
"ho"
],
[
"Hoy",
"hoy"
],
[
"Whoa",
"whoa"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "どー"
},
{
"ipa": "[do̞ː]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Arte da Lingoa de Iapam",
"Nippo Jisho",
"どう"
],
"word": "どう"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"胴",
"動",
"堂",
"筒",
"道",
"銅",
"幢",
"鐃",
"同",
"怎"
],
"senses": [
{
"tags": [
"no-gloss"
]
}
],
"word": "どう"
}
Download raw JSONL data for どう meaning in All languages combined (8.2kB)
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"どう"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "adverb",
"title": "どう",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"どう"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "interjection",
"title": "どう",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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