See 閻魔 on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "sa",
"3": "यम",
"4": "",
"5": "Yama"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit यम (yama, “Yama”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Sanskrit यम (yama, “Yama”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "阎魔",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "閻魔",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "zh",
"name": "Buddhism",
"orig": "zh:Buddhism",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "zh",
"name": "Chinese mythology",
"orig": "zh:Chinese mythology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "zh",
"name": "Hinduism",
"orig": "zh:Hinduism",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "閻魔天子"
},
{
"word": "阎魔天子"
},
{
"word": "閻魔王"
},
{
"word": "阎魔王"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese mythology) Synonym of 閻羅 /阎罗 (Yánluó, “Yama (god of the underworld)”)"
],
"id": "en-閻魔-zh-name-39GRaLGR",
"links": [
[
"王",
"王#Chinese"
],
[
"Hinduism",
"Hinduism"
],
[
"Buddhism",
"Buddhism"
],
[
"Chinese",
"Chinese"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"閻羅",
"閻羅#Chinese"
],
[
"阎罗",
"阎罗#Chinese"
],
[
"Yama",
"Yama"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(～王) (Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese mythology) Synonym of 閻羅 /阎罗 (Yánluó, “Yama (god of the underworld)”)"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "Yánmó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄛˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "jim⁴ mo¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yánmó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄛˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yánmó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yen²-mo²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yán-mwó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yanmo"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Яньмо"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Janʹmo"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛn³⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "yìhm mō"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "jim⁴ mo¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "yim⁴ mo¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiːm²¹ mɔː⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Middle-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "yem ma"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛn³⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiːm²¹ mɔː⁵⁵/"
}
],
"word": "閻魔"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ltc",
"3": "-",
"sort": "えんま"
},
"expansion": "Middle Chinese",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "閻魔"
},
"expansion": "閻魔 (MC yem ma)",
"name": "ltc-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "sa",
"3": "यम",
"sort": "えんま",
"tr": "yamá"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit यम (yamá)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "夜摩",
"tr1": "Yama"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of 夜摩 (Yama)",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Chinese 閻魔 (MC yem ma), from Sanskrit यम (yamá). Doublet of 夜摩 (Yama).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "閻魔",
"ruby": [
[
"閻",
"えん"
],
[
"魔",
"ま"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "閻魔",
"ruby": [
[
"閻魔",
"エンマ"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "Enma",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "proper",
"2": "えんま",
"3": "エンマ"
},
"expansion": "閻(えん)魔(ま) or 閻魔(エンマ) • (Enma)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ja",
"name": "Buddhist deities",
"orig": "ja:Buddhist deities",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "King Enma",
"roman": "Enma Ō",
"ruby": [
[
"閻魔王",
"えんまおう"
]
],
"word": "閻魔王"
},
{
"english": "Great King Enma",
"roman": "Enma Daiō",
"ruby": [
[
"閻魔大王",
"えんまだいおう"
]
],
"word": "閻魔大王"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Enma, the Japanese name for Yama, the Buddhist and Chinese god who presides over naraku (hell)."
],
"id": "en-閻魔-ja-name-EqGJHLHB",
"links": [
[
"Buddhism",
"Buddhism"
],
[
"name",
"name"
],
[
"Yama",
"Yama"
],
[
"Buddhist",
"Buddhist"
],
[
"Chinese",
"Chinese"
],
[
"god",
"god"
],
[
"naraku",
"naraku"
],
[
"hell",
"hell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Buddhism): Enma, the Japanese name for Yama, the Buddhist and Chinese god who presides over naraku (hell)."
],
"topics": [
"Buddhism",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "えんま"
},
{
"ipa": "[ẽ̞mːa̠]"
}
],
"word": "閻魔"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "閻魔天子"
},
{
"word": "阎魔天子"
},
{
"word": "閻魔王"
},
{
"word": "阎魔王"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "sa",
"3": "यम",
"4": "",
"5": "Yama"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit यम (yama, “Yama”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Sanskrit यम (yama, “Yama”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "阎魔",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "閻魔",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Cantonese lemmas",
"Cantonese proper nouns",
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese proper nouns",
"Chinese terms borrowed from Sanskrit",
"Chinese terms derived from Sanskrit",
"Chinese terms spelled with 閻",
"Chinese terms spelled with 魔",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Mandarin proper nouns",
"Middle Chinese lemmas",
"Middle Chinese proper nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"zh:Buddhism",
"zh:Chinese mythology",
"zh:Hinduism"
],
"glosses": [
"(Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese mythology) Synonym of 閻羅 /阎罗 (Yánluó, “Yama (god of the underworld)”)"
],
"links": [
[
"王",
"王#Chinese"
],
[
"Hinduism",
"Hinduism"
],
[
"Buddhism",
"Buddhism"
],
[
"Chinese",
"Chinese"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"閻羅",
"閻羅#Chinese"
],
[
"阎罗",
"阎罗#Chinese"
],
[
"Yama",
"Yama"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(～王) (Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese mythology) Synonym of 閻羅 /阎罗 (Yánluó, “Yama (god of the underworld)”)"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "Yánmó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄛˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "jim⁴ mo¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yánmó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄛˊ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yánmó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yen²-mo²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yán-mwó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Yanmo"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Яньмо"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "Janʹmo"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛn³⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "yìhm mō"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "jim⁴ mo¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "yim⁴ mo¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiːm²¹ mɔː⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Middle-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "yem ma"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛn³⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiːm²¹ mɔː⁵⁵/"
}
],
"word": "閻魔"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"english": "King Enma",
"roman": "Enma Ō",
"ruby": [
[
"閻魔王",
"えんまおう"
]
],
"word": "閻魔王"
},
{
"english": "Great King Enma",
"roman": "Enma Daiō",
"ruby": [
[
"閻魔大王",
"えんまだいおう"
]
],
"word": "閻魔大王"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ltc",
"3": "-",
"sort": "えんま"
},
"expansion": "Middle Chinese",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "閻魔"
},
"expansion": "閻魔 (MC yem ma)",
"name": "ltc-l"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "sa",
"3": "यम",
"sort": "えんま",
"tr": "yamá"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit यम (yamá)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "夜摩",
"tr1": "Yama"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of 夜摩 (Yama)",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Chinese 閻魔 (MC yem ma), from Sanskrit यम (yamá). Doublet of 夜摩 (Yama).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "閻魔",
"ruby": [
[
"閻",
"えん"
],
[
"魔",
"ま"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "閻魔",
"ruby": [
[
"閻魔",
"エンマ"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "Enma",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "proper",
"2": "えんま",
"3": "エンマ"
},
"expansion": "閻(えん)魔(ま) or 閻魔(エンマ) • (Enma)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese doublets",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese proper nouns",
"Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
"Japanese terms derived from Sanskrit",
"Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
"Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"ja:Buddhist deities"
],
"glosses": [
"Enma, the Japanese name for Yama, the Buddhist and Chinese god who presides over naraku (hell)."
],
"links": [
[
"Buddhism",
"Buddhism"
],
[
"name",
"name"
],
[
"Yama",
"Yama"
],
[
"Buddhist",
"Buddhist"
],
[
"Chinese",
"Chinese"
],
[
"god",
"god"
],
[
"naraku",
"naraku"
],
[
"hell",
"hell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Buddhism): Enma, the Japanese name for Yama, the Buddhist and Chinese god who presides over naraku (hell)."
],
"topics": [
"Buddhism",
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "えんま"
},
{
"ipa": "[ẽ̞mːa̠]"
}
],
"word": "閻魔"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 閻魔 meaning in All languages combined (5.3kB)
{
"called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
"msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
"path": [
"閻魔"
],
"section": "Chinese",
"subsection": "",
"title": "閻魔",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: ～王",
"path": [
"閻魔"
],
"section": "Chinese",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "閻魔",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: ～王",
"path": [
"閻魔"
],
"section": "Chinese",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "閻魔",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"閻魔"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "閻魔",
"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 2025-06-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.