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"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"word": "Tcheng"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French surnames",
"French surnames from Chinese"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from Chinese"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"French surnames",
"French surnames from Chinese",
"French terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Anne Cheng, b. 1955"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a French surname from Chinese"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(very rare) a French surname from Chinese"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/tʃɛŋ/"
}
],
"word": "Cheng"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "nan-hbl",
"3": "莊",
"tr": "Chng"
},
"expansion": "Hokkien 莊／庄 (Chng)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Hokkien 莊／庄 (Chng).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜅ᜔",
"tags": [
"Baybayin"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"b": "+"
},
"expansion": "Cheng (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜅ᜔)",
"name": "tl-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Tagalog",
"lang_code": "tl",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"word": "Ching"
},
{
"word": "Chong"
},
{
"word": "Chung"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Rhymes:Tagalog/eŋ",
"Rhymes:Tagalog/eŋ/1 syllable",
"Tagalog 1-syllable words",
"Tagalog entries with incorrect language header",
"Tagalog lemmas",
"Tagalog proper nouns",
"Tagalog surnames",
"Tagalog surnames from Hokkien",
"Tagalog terms borrowed from Hokkien",
"Tagalog terms derived from Hokkien",
"Tagalog terms spelled with C",
"Tagalog terms with Baybayin script",
"Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation",
"Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname from Hokkien"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃeŋ/",
"tags": [
"Standard-Tagalog"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɛŋ]",
"tags": [
"Standard-Tagalog"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eŋ"
}
],
"word": "Cheng"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb 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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