"緣起" meaning in Chinese

See 緣起 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɥɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /jyːn²¹ hei̯³⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Xiamen], /iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵⁵⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Quanzhou], /iɛn¹³⁻²² kʰi⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Zhangzhou], /iɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰi⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Taipei], /iɛn²³⁻³³ kʰi⁴¹/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Kaohsiung] Forms: 缘起 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 緣起
  1. cause; origin
    Sense id: en-緣起-zh-noun-~kuIDxGw Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 33 38 12 18 Disambiguation of Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 32 37 6 26
  2. account of an initiation (of a project, founding of an institution)
    Sense id: en-緣起-zh-noun-G5-YLJ4V Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 33 38 12 18 Disambiguation of Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 32 37 6 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 30 38 9 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 38 10 23
  3. (Buddhism) pratītyasamutpāda
    Sense id: en-緣起-zh-noun-QKj7O0Uc Categories (other): Buddhism, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 33 38 12 18 Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 無盡緣起, 无尽缘起
Synonyms: 來由 (láiyóu), 来由 (láiyóu), 原因 (yuányīn), 因由 (yīnyóu), 因端 [Hokkien], 因致端 [Hokkien], 基因 (jīyīn) [dated], 張本 (zhāngběn) [literary], 张本 (zhāngběn) [literary], 成因 (chéngyīn), 所以然 (suǒyǐrán), 根由 (gēnyóu), 理由 (lǐyóu), 緣故 (yuángù), 缘故 (yuángù), 緣由 (yuányóu), 缘由 (yuányóu), 肇因 (zhàoyīn), 苗頭 (Suzhounese), 苗头 (Suzhounese), 言因 (Anxi Hokkien), 說道 (shuōdao) [colloquial], 说道 (shuōdao) [colloquial], 起因 (qǐyīn), 道理 (dàolǐ), 關係, 关系

Verb

IPA: /ɥɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /jyːn²¹ hei̯³⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Xiamen], /iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵⁵⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Quanzhou], /iɛn¹³⁻²² kʰi⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Zhangzhou], /iɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰi⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Taipei], /iɛn²³⁻³³ kʰi⁴¹/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Kaohsiung] Forms: 缘起 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 緣起
  1. to happen for a particular reason
    Sense id: en-緣起-zh-verb-sF0hsaux Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 33 38 12 18 Disambiguation of Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 32 37 6 26
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "缘起",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "緣起",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 38 12 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 37 6 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to happen for a particular reason"
      ],
      "id": "en-緣起-zh-verb-sF0hsaux",
      "links": [
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ],
        [
          "reason",
          "reason"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuánqǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄧˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁴ hei²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iân-khí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuánqǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄧˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuáncǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yüan²-chʻi³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ywán-chǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuanchii"
    },
    {
      "roman": "juanʹci",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "юаньци"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁴ hei²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yùhn héi"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyn⁴ hei²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yun⁴ héi²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn²¹ hei̯³⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iân-khí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iân-khí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ienqie"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn¹³⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²³⁻³³ kʰi⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "緣起"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "無盡緣起"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "无尽缘起"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "缘起",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "緣起",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 38 12 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 37 6 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cause; origin"
      ],
      "id": "en-緣起-zh-noun-~kuIDxGw",
      "links": [
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "origin",
          "origin"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 38 12 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 37 6 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 38 9 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 38 10 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "account of an initiation (of a project, founding of an institution)"
      ],
      "id": "en-緣起-zh-noun-G5-YLJ4V",
      "links": [
        [
          "account",
          "account"
        ],
        [
          "initiation",
          "initiation"
        ],
        [
          "project",
          "project#English"
        ],
        [
          "founding",
          "founding#English"
        ],
        [
          "institution",
          "institution#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Buddhism",
          "orig": "zh:Buddhism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 38 12 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pratītyasamutpāda"
      ],
      "id": "en-緣起-zh-noun-QKj7O0Uc",
      "links": [
        [
          "Buddhism",
          "Buddhism"
        ],
        [
          "pratītyasamutpāda",
          "pratītyasamutpāda"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Buddhism) pratītyasamutpāda"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Buddhism",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuánqǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄧˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁴ hei²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iân-khí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuánqǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄧˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuáncǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yüan²-chʻi³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ywán-chǐ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuanchii"
    },
    {
      "roman": "juanʹci",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "юаньци"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyun⁴ hei²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yùhn héi"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jyn⁴ hei²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yun⁴ héi²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn²¹ hei̯³⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iân-khí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iân-khí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ienqie"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn¹³⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²³⁻³³ kʰi⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "láiyóu",
      "word": "來由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "láiyóu",
      "word": "来由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuányīn",
      "word": "原因"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yīnyóu",
      "word": "因由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "因端"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "因致端"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "jīyīn",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "基因"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "zhāngběn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "張本"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "zhāngběn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "张本"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "chéngyīn",
      "word": "成因"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "suǒyǐrán",
      "word": "所以然"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "gēnyóu",
      "word": "根由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "lǐyóu",
      "word": "理由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuángù",
      "word": "緣故"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuángù",
      "word": "缘故"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuányóu",
      "word": "緣由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yuányóu",
      "word": "缘由"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "zhàoyīn",
      "word": "肇因"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "Suzhounese",
      "word": "苗頭"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "Suzhounese",
      "word": "苗头"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "Anxi Hokkien",
      "word": "言因"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shuōdao",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "說道"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shuōdao",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "说道"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "qǐyīn",
      "word": "起因"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "dàolǐ",
      "word": "道理"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "關係"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "关系"
    }
  ],
  "word": "緣起"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 緣",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 起",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
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      "tags": [
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        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
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    {
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        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
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    {
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "roman": "juanʹci",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɥɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
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        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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        "POJ"
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      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ienqie"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn¹³⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²³⁻³³ kʰi⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
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      "word": "無盡緣起"
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      "word": "无尽缘起"
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        "Pinyin"
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        "POJ"
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        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuánqǐ"
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ywán-chǐ"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yuanchii"
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    {
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        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
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    },
    {
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        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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        "Hong Kong"
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      "zh_pron": "yun⁴ héi²"
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    {
      "ipa": "/jyːn²¹ hei̯³⁵/",
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        "Hong Kong"
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        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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      "tags": [
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        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
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      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iân-khí"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ienqie"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁵⁵⁴/",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn¹³⁻²² kʰi⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰi⁵³/",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn²³⁻³³ kʰi⁴¹/",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
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    {
      "roman": "láiyóu",
      "word": "來由"
    },
    {
      "roman": "láiyóu",
      "word": "来由"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuányīn",
      "word": "原因"
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    {
      "roman": "yīnyóu",
      "word": "因由"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
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      "word": "因端"
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      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
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      "word": "因致端"
    },
    {
      "roman": "jīyīn",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "基因"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zhāngběn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "張本"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zhāngběn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "张本"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chéngyīn",
      "word": "成因"
    },
    {
      "roman": "suǒyǐrán",
      "word": "所以然"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gēnyóu",
      "word": "根由"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lǐyóu",
      "word": "理由"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuángù",
      "word": "緣故"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuángù",
      "word": "缘故"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuányóu",
      "word": "緣由"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yuányóu",
      "word": "缘由"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zhàoyīn",
      "word": "肇因"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Suzhounese",
      "word": "苗頭"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Suzhounese",
      "word": "苗头"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Anxi Hokkien",
      "word": "言因"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shuōdao",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "說道"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shuōdao",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
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      "word": "说道"
    },
    {
      "roman": "qǐyīn",
      "word": "起因"
    },
    {
      "roman": "dàolǐ",
      "word": "道理"
    },
    {
      "word": "關係"
    },
    {
      "word": "关系"
    }
  ],
  "word": "緣起"
}

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