"遠因" meaning in All languages combined

See 遠因 on Wiktionary

Noun [Chinese]

IPA: /ɥɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /jyːn¹³ jɐn⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Xiamen], /uan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ in³³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Quanzhou], /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Zhangzhou], /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Taipei], /uan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Kaohsiung] Forms: 远因 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 遠因
  1. indirect cause; distant cause; remote cause
    Sense id: en-遠因-zh-noun-ifw-jzU1 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 93 3 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 3 3

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [ẽ̞ɰ̃ĩɴ] Forms: 遠因 [canonical] (ruby: (えん), (いん)), en'in [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|えんいん}} 遠(えん)因(いん) • (en'in)
  1. indirect cause, distant cause, remote cause
    Sense id: en-遠因-ja-noun-0RSyDwEv Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō), Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 62 38 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 66 34 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 46 54 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō): 67 33 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 66 34
  2. underlying cause
    Sense id: en-遠因-ja-noun-qGhB6DXz Categories (other): Japanese terms with 2 kanji Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 46 54
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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "jìnyīn",
      "word": "近因"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "en'in",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "遠因",
          "えんいん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "遠因"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "wonin",
      "word": "원인(遠因)"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "远因",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
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      },
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        {
          "_dis": "93 3 4",
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          "_dis": "94 3 3",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "indirect cause; distant cause; remote cause"
      ],
      "id": "en-遠因-zh-noun-ifw-jzU1",
      "links": [
        [
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          "cause",
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          "distant",
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        ],
        [
          "remote",
          "remote"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuǎnyīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˇ ㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁵ jan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oán-in"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuǎnyīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˇ ㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuǎnyin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yüan³-yin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ywǎn-yīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yeuanin"
    },
    {
      "roman": "juanʹinʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "юаньинь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁵ jan¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yúhn yān"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyn⁵ jan¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yun⁵ yen¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn¹³ jɐn⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oán-in"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "uán-in"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oafn'yn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ in³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "遠因"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "遠因",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "遠",
          "えん"
        ],
        [
          "因",
          "いん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en'in",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "えんいん"
      },
      "expansion": "遠(えん)因(いん) • (en'in)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
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      ],
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            [
              32,
              37
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The incident turned out to be a distant cause of the war.",
          "roman": "Sono jiken wa sensō o hikiokosu en'in to natta.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "事件",
              "じけん"
            ],
            [
              "戦争",
              "せんそう"
            ],
            [
              "引",
              "ひ"
            ],
            [
              "起",
              "お"
            ],
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              "遠因",
              "えんいん"
            ]
          ],
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        }
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        "indirect cause, distant cause, remote cause"
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      "id": "en-遠因-ja-noun-0RSyDwEv",
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          "distant"
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          "cause",
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        [
          "remote",
          "remote"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
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          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "underlying cause"
      ],
      "id": "en-遠因-ja-noun-qGhB6DXz",
      "links": [
        [
          "underlying",
          "underlying"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "えんいん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ẽ̞ɰ̃ĩɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "遠因"
}
{
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    {
      "roman": "jìnyīn",
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    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
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      "lang_code": "ja",
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      ],
      "word": "遠因"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "wonin",
      "word": "원인(遠因)"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "远因",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese nouns",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese nouns",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 因",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 遠",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
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        "Hokkien nouns",
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        "Mandarin nouns",
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        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "indirect cause; distant cause; remote cause"
      ],
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        [
          "indirect",
          "indirect"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "distant",
          "distant"
        ],
        [
          "remote",
          "remote"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuǎnyīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˇ ㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁵ jan¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oán-in"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuǎnyīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˇ ㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuǎnyin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yüan³-yin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ywǎn-yīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yeuanin"
    },
    {
      "roman": "juanʹinʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "юаньинь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁵ jan¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yúhn yān"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyn⁵ jan¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yun⁵ yen¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn¹³ jɐn⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oán-in"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "uán-in"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "oafn'yn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ in³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/uan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ in⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "遠因"
}

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    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
    "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 redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "遠因",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "遠",
          "えん"
        ],
        [
          "因",
          "いん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en'in",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "えんいん"
      },
      "expansion": "遠(えん)因(いん) • (en'in)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
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          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              32,
              37
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The incident turned out to be a distant cause of the war.",
          "roman": "Sono jiken wa sensō o hikiokosu en'in to natta.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "事件",
              "じけん"
            ],
            [
              "戦争",
              "せんそう"
            ],
            [
              "引",
              "ひ"
            ],
            [
              "起",
              "お"
            ],
            [
              "遠因",
              "えんいん"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "その事件は戦争を引き起こす遠因となった。",
          "translation": "The incident turned out to be a distant cause of the war.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "indirect cause, distant cause, remote cause"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "indirect",
          "indirect"
        ],
        [
          "distant",
          "distant"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "remote",
          "remote"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "underlying cause"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "underlying",
          "underlying"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "えんいん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ẽ̞ɰ̃ĩɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "遠因"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 遠因 meaning in All languages combined (5.1kB)

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "遠因"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "遠因",
  "trace": ""
}

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