"maneki neko" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maneki neko",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maneki nekos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "maneki neko",
        "2": "+",
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "maneki neko (plural maneki neko or maneki nekos)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "maneki-neko"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Bruce Sterling, “Maneki Neko”, in A Good Old-Fashioned Future, Bantam Books, page 6",
          "text": "A maneki neko was nestled inside white foam padding.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Christine Reiko Yano, “Global Kitty: Here, There, Nearly Everywhere”, in Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, page 127",
          "text": "One of the clerks gave me an information sheet about maneki nekos.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Heather Galler, “Maneki Neko”, in Folk Art Fusion: Learn to Paint Colorful Contemporary Folk Art in Acrylic, Walter Foster Publishing, page 60",
          "text": "Maneki neko are Japanese talismans and are thought to bring good fortune and wealth to their owners.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of maneki-neko"
      ],
      "id": "en-maneki_neko-en-noun-wkDFF1rS",
      "links": [
        [
          "maneki-neko",
          "maneki-neko#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maneki neko"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maneki neko",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maneki nekos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "maneki neko",
        "2": "+",
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "maneki neko (plural maneki neko or maneki nekos)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "maneki-neko"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Bruce Sterling, “Maneki Neko”, in A Good Old-Fashioned Future, Bantam Books, page 6",
          "text": "A maneki neko was nestled inside white foam padding.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Christine Reiko Yano, “Global Kitty: Here, There, Nearly Everywhere”, in Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, page 127",
          "text": "One of the clerks gave me an information sheet about maneki nekos.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Heather Galler, “Maneki Neko”, in Folk Art Fusion: Learn to Paint Colorful Contemporary Folk Art in Acrylic, Walter Foster Publishing, page 60",
          "text": "Maneki neko are Japanese talismans and are thought to bring good fortune and wealth to their owners.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of maneki-neko"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "maneki-neko",
          "maneki-neko#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maneki neko"
}