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"alt": "片仮名",
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"ref": "Japanese is written in a mixture of kanji and kana. These variations cannot be said to be extraordinary in their appearance; Inoue, Sugishima, Ukita, Minagawa, and Kashu (1994) report that variation is common even among high frequency words for which kanji is the typical representation. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eTk6AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99&dq=%22kanji+is+the+typical+representation%22",
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"word": "ਕਾਂਜੀ"
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"Malay terms with audio links",
"Malay terms with redundant script codes"
],
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"Polish nouns",
"Polish terms borrowed from English",
"Polish terms derived from English",
"Polish terms derived from Japanese",
"Polish terms derived from Middle Chinese",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio links",
"Polish unadapted borrowings from English",
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"pl:Japanese",
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}
],
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}
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"2": "ja",
"3": "-"
},
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"1": "漢字",
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},
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],
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"tags": [
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}
],
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"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese terms borrowed from Japanese",
"Portuguese terms derived from Japanese",
"Portuguese terms spelled with K",
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"Portuguese unadapted borrowings from Japanese"
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"kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese context)"
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[
"kanji",
"kanji#English"
]
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}
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{
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[
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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 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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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