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"蛍 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月中一戈 (FBLMI), composition ⿱𰃮虫)"
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"ref": "1991 July 15, Mitsuru Adachi, “魔法の粉の巻”, in [虹色とうがらし](ＮＩＪＩ－ＩＲＯ ＴＯＨＧＡＲＡＳＨＩ), volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, page 30",
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"ipa": "[ho̞ta̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]"
}
],
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"Man'yōshú",
"ja:ホタル"
],
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}
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"Japanese affixes",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese proper nouns",
"Japanese single-kanji terms",
"Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
"Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with 蛍",
"Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms written with one Han script character",
"Japanese words with multiple readings",
"ja:Beetles"
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},
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"form": "蛍",
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"蛍",
"けい"
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],
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]
},
{
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]
}
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"pos": "affix",
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"used in various compounds to refer to fluorescence"
],
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[
"fluorescence",
"fluorescence#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "蛍"
}
{
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"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese proper nouns",
"Japanese single-kanji terms",
"Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
"Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with 蛍",
"Japanese terms with multiple readings",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms written with one Han script character",
"Japanese words with multiple readings",
"ja:Beetles"
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"2": "ltc",
"3": "-",
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"expansion": "Middle Chinese",
"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "螢",
"2": "firefly"
},
"expansion": "螢 (MC hweng, “firefly”)",
"name": "ltc-l"
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],
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{
"form": "蛍",
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"蛍",
"けい"
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],
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"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "Kei",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "proper",
"2": "けい"
},
"expansion": "蛍(けい) • (Kei)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
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"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "name",
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{
"categories": [
"Japanese female given names",
"Japanese given names",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"word": "蛍"
}
{
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{
"form": "hyeong",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "형",
"tags": [
"hangeul"
]
},
{
"form": "hyeong",
"tags": [
"revised"
]
},
{
"form": "hyŏng",
"tags": [
"McCune-Reischauer"
]
},
{
"form": "hyeng",
"tags": [
"Yale"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "Han characters",
"sc": "Kore",
"sort": "형",
"tr": "hyeong"
},
"expansion": "蛍 • (hyeong)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"eumhun": "",
"hangeul": "형",
"mr": "hyŏng",
"rv": "hyeong",
"y": "hyeng"
},
"expansion": "蛍 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune–Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)",
"name": "ko-hanja"
}
],
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"pos": "character",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Korean Han characters",
"Korean entries with incorrect language header",
"Korean lemmas",
"Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Korean terms with redundant script codes"
],
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"Hanja"
],
"tags": [
"no-gloss"
]
}
],
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}
{
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"pos": "character",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"CJKV characters simplified differently in Japan and China",
"Chinese terms with redundant script codes",
"Han char without four",
"Han script characters",
"Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual symbols",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
"Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Translingual terms with redundant script codes"
],
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"蛍 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月中一戈 (FBLMI), composition ⿱𰃮虫)"
],
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[
"Kangxi radical",
"Kangxi radical"
],
[
"𰃮",
"𰃮#Translingual"
],
[
"虫",
"虫#Translingual"
]
],
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"han"
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"Shinjitai",
"Simplified Chinese",
"Traditional Chinese"
]
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}
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],
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"title": "蛍",
"trace": ""
}
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"蛍"
],
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"title": "蛍",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
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"蛍"
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"title": "蛍",
"trace": ""
}
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],
"section": "Japanese",
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"title": "蛍",
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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 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). 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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