See 桑梓 on Wiktionary
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"ipa": "/sɔːŋ⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵/"
},
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"ipa": "/sɔŋ³³ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/"
},
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"ipa": "/sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/"
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"ipa": "/sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁵³/"
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"ipa": "/sɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
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{
"ipa": "/sɔːŋ⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵/"
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"ipa": "/sɔŋ³³ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/"
},
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"ipa": "/sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/"
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},
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"ipa": "/sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡si⁴¹/"
},
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"ipa": "/sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡si⁵³/"
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"glosses": [
"mulberry trees and cherry-birch trees"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese literary terms"
],
"glosses": [
"one's hometown"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary, figurative) one's hometown"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "故郷"
},
{
"word": "家郷"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
]
}
],
"word": "桑梓"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 桑梓 meaning in All languages combined (6.6kB)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). 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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