See 夜叉 on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "夜叉國"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "夜叉国"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "夜叉婆"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "夜叉星"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "mǔyèchā",
"word": "母夜叉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "笑面夜叉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "魔王夜叉"
}
],
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{
"depth": 0,
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"2": "夜叉"
},
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},
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"1": "ja",
"2": "-",
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},
"expansion": "→ Japanese:",
"name": "desc"
},
{
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"2": "や%しゃ",
"gloss": "",
"pos": ""
},
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"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
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"id3": "",
"id4": "",
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"pos2": "",
"pos3": "",
"pos4": "",
"t": "",
"t2": "",
"t3": "",
"t4": ""
},
"expansion": "→ Korean: 야차(夜叉) (yacha)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "dạ-xoa",
"bor": "1",
"id": "夜叉",
"pos": "",
"t": "",
"tr": "夜叉"
},
"expansion": "→ Vietnamese: dạ-xoa (夜叉)",
"name": "desc"
},
{
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"2": "や%しゃ",
"3": "야차",
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"5": "",
"6": "",
"h": "夜叉",
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"j2t": "",
"j3": "",
"j3t": "",
"j4": "",
"j4t": "",
"jdesc": "",
"jje2": "",
"jje2t": "",
"jje3": "",
"jje3t": "",
"jje4": "",
"jje4t": "",
"jjedesc": "",
"jjet": "",
"jt": "",
"k2": "",
"k2t": "",
"k3": "",
"k3t": "",
"k4": "",
"k4t": "",
"kdesc": "",
"kt": "",
"o": "夜叉",
"o2": "",
"o2t": "",
"o3": "",
"o3t": "",
"o4": "",
"o4t": "",
"odesc": "",
"ot": "",
"s": "夜%叉",
"v": "夜叉",
"v2": "",
"v2t": "",
"v3": "",
"v3t": "",
"v4": "",
"v4t": "",
"vdesc": "",
"vt": ""
},
"expansion": "Sino-Xenic (夜叉):\n* → Japanese: 夜(や)叉(しゃ) (yasha)\n* → Korean: 야차(夜叉) (yacha)\n* → Vietnamese: dạ-xoa (夜叉)",
"name": "CJKV/code"
},
{
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"1": "",
"2": "や%しゃ",
"3": "야차",
"4": "dạ-xoa",
"j": "夜%叉"
},
"expansion": "Sino-Xenic (夜叉):\n* → Japanese: 夜(や)叉(しゃ) (yasha)\n* → Korean: 야차(夜叉) (yacha)\n* → Vietnamese: dạ-xoa (夜叉)",
"name": "CJKV"
}
],
"text": "Sino-Xenic (夜叉):\n* → Japanese: 夜(や)叉(しゃ) (yasha)\n* → Korean: 야차(夜叉) (yacha)\n* → Vietnamese: dạ-xoa (夜叉)"
}
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"2": "sa",
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},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa).",
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"2": "noun"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "zh",
"name": "Buddhism",
"orig": "zh:Buddhism",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
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"yaksha (a malevolent spirit)"
],
"id": "en-夜叉-zh-noun-jIXCjyPz",
"links": [
[
"Buddhism",
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],
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"yaksha",
"yaksha"
],
[
"malevolent",
"malevolent"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Buddhism) yaksha (a malevolent spirit)"
],
"topics": [
"Buddhism",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"_dis": "35 55 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a ferocious and hideous looking person"
],
"id": "en-夜叉-zh-noun-NciKL03w",
"links": [
[
"ferocious",
"ferocious"
],
[
"hideous",
"hideous"
],
[
"looking",
"looking"
],
[
"person",
"person"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) a ferocious and hideous looking person"
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"wife"
],
"id": "en-夜叉-zh-noun-nVKjyOTW",
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"wife",
"wife"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, humorous, dated) wife"
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"figuratively",
"humorous"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "yèchā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "je⁶ caa¹"
},
{
"zh-pron": "iā-chhe"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yèchā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard",
"toneless-final-syllable-variant"
],
"zh-pron": "yècha"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard",
"toneless-final-syllable-variant"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄝˋ ˙ㄔㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yèchå"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yeh⁴-chʻa⁵"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yè-cha"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yeh.cha"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "еча"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ječa"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵/ ",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"ipa": " /jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä¹/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "yeh chā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "je⁶ tsaa¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "yé⁶ ca¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛː²² t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "iā-chhe"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "iā-tshe"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "iaxzhef"
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Min-Nan"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Middle-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "yaeH tsrhae"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛː²² t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "藥叉／药叉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "藥叉"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "药叉"
}
],
"word": "夜叉"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "Alnus firma, a type of alder tree",
"roman": "yashabushi",
"ruby": [
[
"夜叉五倍子",
"ヤシャブシ"
]
],
"word": "夜叉五倍子"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "Semiarundinaria yashadake, a type of bamboo",
"roman": "yashadake",
"ruby": [
[
"夜叉竹",
"ヤシャダケ"
]
],
"word": "夜叉竹"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "Ribes ambiguum, a type of flowering plant related to currant and gooseberry",
"roman": "yashabishaku",
"ruby": [
[
"夜叉柄杓",
"ヤシャビシャク"
]
],
"word": "夜叉柄杓"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "yashazenmai",
"word": "夜叉薇: Osmunda lancea"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the Japanese lancea flowering fern"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ltc",
"3": "-",
"sort": "やしゃ"
},
"expansion": "Middle Chinese",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "sa",
"3": "यक्ष",
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},
"expansion": "Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Chinese 夜叉 (yæᴴ cha?), itself a transliteration of Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "夜叉",
"ruby": [
[
"夜",
"や"
],
[
"叉",
"しゃ"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "yasha",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "yasya",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "やしや",
"roman": "yasya",
"tags": [
"hiragana",
"historical"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "やしゃ",
"hhira": "やしや"
},
"expansion": "夜(や)叉(しゃ) • (yasha) ^(←やしや (yasya)?)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "like when the yaksha saw the horse",
"roman": "yasha ga uma o mita yō",
"word": "夜叉が馬を見たよう: → an expression of extreme happiness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "a story of a yaksha who lost his horse"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "48 44 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"yaksha, a broad class of nature spirits or minor deities who appear in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology. May be male or female, benevolent or malevolent."
],
"id": "en-夜叉-ja-noun-Rmoxy1Yi",
"links": [
[
"yaksha",
"yaksha"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"deities",
"deity"
],
[
"Hindu",
"Hindu"
],
[
"Buddhist",
"Buddhist"
],
[
"Jain",
"Jain"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
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"name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
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},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ja",
"name": "Buddhism",
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},
{
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"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 71 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "30 66 3",
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"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 65 3",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"in Buddhism, yakshas are held to be followers of 毘沙門天 (Bishamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa, the chief of the Four Heavenly Kings”), and guardians of the north"
],
"id": "en-夜叉-ja-noun-mAhISkoV",
"links": [
[
"Buddhism",
"Buddhism"
],
[
"yaksha",
"yaksha"
],
[
"follower",
"follower"
],
[
"毘沙門天",
"毘沙門天#Japanese"
],
[
"north",
"north"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Buddhism) in Buddhism, yakshas are held to be followers of 毘沙門天 (Bishamonten, “Vaiśravaṇa, the chief of the Four Heavenly Kings”), and guardians of the north"
],
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"religion"
]
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[
40,
45
]
],
"bold_roman_offsets": [
[
35,
40
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
12,
14
]
],
"english": "When that girl gets angry, she's a real demon.",
"roman": "Ano onna no ko wa okoru to masa ni yasha no yō da yo.",
"ruby": [
[
"女",
"おんな"
],
[
"子",
"こ"
],
[
"怒",
"おこ"
],
[
"夜叉",
"やしゃ"
]
],
"text": "あの女の子は怒るとまさに夜叉のようだよ。",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a demon"
],
"id": "en-夜叉-ja-noun-zE-CNf7u",
"links": [
[
"demon",
"demon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) a demon"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
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{
"other": "やしゃ"
},
{
"ipa": "[ja̠ɕa̠]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"roman": "yakusha",
"ruby": [
[
"薬叉",
"やくしゃ"
]
],
"word": "薬叉"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Daijirin",
"Yaksha",
"ja:夜叉"
],
"word": "夜叉"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "yacha",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "야차",
"tags": [
"hangeul"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"hangeul": "야차"
},
"expansion": "夜叉 • (yacha) (hangeul 야차)",
"name": "ko-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Korean entries with incorrect language header",
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},
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},
{
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
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},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
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{
"extra": "yaksha",
"word": "야차"
}
],
"glosses": [
"hanja form of 야차 (“yaksha”)"
],
"id": "en-夜叉-ko-noun-fN2-ZRU5",
"links": [
[
"hanja",
"hanja#English"
],
[
"야차",
"야차#Korean"
],
[
"yaksha",
"yaksha"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"hanja"
]
}
],
"word": "夜叉"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "vi",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"head": "",
"tr": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"sc": "Hani"
},
"expansion": "夜叉",
"name": "vi-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
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},
{
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"parents": [],
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},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Vietnamese Chữ Hán",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"chữ Hán form of dạ-xoa (“yaksha”)."
],
"id": "en-夜叉-vi-noun-jFbspSei",
"links": [
[
"chữ Hán",
"chữ Hán#Vietnamese"
],
[
"dạ-xoa",
"dạ-xoa#Vietnamese:_夜叉"
],
[
"yaksha",
"yaksha"
]
]
}
],
"word": "夜叉"
}
{
"categories": [
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese nouns",
"Chinese terms borrowed from Sanskrit",
"Chinese terms derived from Sanskrit",
"Chinese terms spelled with 叉",
"Chinese terms spelled with 夜",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Middle Chinese lemmas",
"Middle Chinese nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "夜叉國"
},
{
"word": "夜叉国"
},
{
"word": "夜叉婆"
},
{
"word": "夜叉星"
},
{
"roman": "mǔyèchā",
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},
{
"word": "笑面夜叉"
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{
"word": "魔王夜叉"
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"4": "",
"5": "",
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"pos": "",
"pos2": "",
"pos3": "",
"pos4": "",
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"t3": "",
"t4": ""
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"2": "dạ-xoa",
"bor": "1",
"id": "夜叉",
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"6": "",
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"j3": "",
"j3t": "",
"j4": "",
"j4t": "",
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"jje2t": "",
"jje3": "",
"jje3t": "",
"jje4": "",
"jje4t": "",
"jjedesc": "",
"jjet": "",
"jt": "",
"k2": "",
"k2t": "",
"k3": "",
"k3t": "",
"k4": "",
"k4t": "",
"kdesc": "",
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"o2t": "",
"o3": "",
"o3t": "",
"o4": "",
"o4t": "",
"odesc": "",
"ot": "",
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"v2t": "",
"v3": "",
"v3t": "",
"v4": "",
"v4t": "",
"vdesc": "",
"vt": ""
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"2": "noun"
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"zh:Buddhism"
],
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"yaksha (a malevolent spirit)"
],
"links": [
[
"Buddhism",
"Buddhism"
],
[
"yaksha",
"yaksha"
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[
"malevolent",
"malevolent"
],
[
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"spirit"
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],
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"Buddhism",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
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],
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"ferocious"
],
[
"hideous",
"hideous"
],
[
"looking",
"looking"
],
[
"person",
"person"
]
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"broadly"
]
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"Chinese dated terms",
"Chinese humorous terms"
],
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"wife"
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[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"wife",
"wife"
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"dated",
"figuratively",
"humorous"
]
}
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"Pinyin"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "je⁶ caa¹"
},
{
"zh-pron": "iā-chhe"
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{
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"Mandarin",
"standard"
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{
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"Mandarin",
"standard",
"toneless-final-syllable-variant"
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},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
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},
{
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"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard",
"toneless-final-syllable-variant"
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},
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"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yèchå"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yeh⁴-chʻa⁵"
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{
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"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
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"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yeh.cha"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "еча"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ječa"
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
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"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
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{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "yeh chā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "je⁶ tsaa¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "yé⁶ ca¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛː²² t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
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{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "iā-chhe"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "iā-tshe"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "iaxzhef"
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Min-Nan"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Middle-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "yaeH tsrhae"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛː²² t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ia³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/"
}
],
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{
"word": "藥叉／药叉"
},
{
"word": "藥叉"
},
{
"word": "药叉"
}
],
"word": "夜叉"
}
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"Japanese terms borrowed from Middle Chinese",
"Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
"Japanese terms derived from Sanskrit",
"Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
"Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
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"english": "Alnus firma, a type of alder tree",
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"roman": "yashadake",
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"ヤシャダケ"
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"english": "Ribes ambiguum, a type of flowering plant related to currant and gooseberry",
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"english": "When that girl gets angry, she's a real demon.",
"roman": "Ano onna no ko wa okoru to masa ni yasha no yō da yo.",
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"やくしゃ"
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],
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}
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"Yaksha",
"ja:夜叉"
],
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}
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]
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