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{
"categories": [
"en:Places in China",
"en:Rivers in China"
],
"glosses": [
"A river in China, a tributary of the Yellow River."
],
"links": [
[
"river",
"river"
],
[
"China",
"China#English"
],
[
"Yellow River",
"Yellow River"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Wei River"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "wā"
},
{
"ipa": "/weɪ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Wei.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Wei.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Wei.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Wei.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-Wei.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "way"
},
{
"homophone": "weigh"
},
{
"homophone": "wey"
},
{
"homophone": "whey (wine–whine merger)"
}
],
"word": "Wei"
}
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