"wu-wei" meaning in All languages combined

See wu-wei on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wu-wei (uncountable)
  1. Alternative spelling of wu wei Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: wu wei
    Sense id: en-wu-wei-en-noun-XGkS2SIA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for wu-wei meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wu-wei (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "wu wei"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Edward Slingerland, Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, Oxford University Press, page 12",
          "text": "Despite common metaphorical formulations of the wu-wei ideal, each of the texts I will examine presents its own soteriological strategy for realizing wu-wei in practice, and these soteriological strategies are themselves formulated in terms of conceptual metaphor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of wu wei"
      ],
      "id": "en-wu-wei-en-noun-XGkS2SIA",
      "links": [
        [
          "wu wei",
          "wu wei#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wu-wei"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wu-wei (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "wu wei"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Edward Slingerland, Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, Oxford University Press, page 12",
          "text": "Despite common metaphorical formulations of the wu-wei ideal, each of the texts I will examine presents its own soteriological strategy for realizing wu-wei in practice, and these soteriological strategies are themselves formulated in terms of conceptual metaphor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of wu wei"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wu wei",
          "wu wei#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wu-wei"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). 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.