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"sense": "Japanese form of alternative medicine",
"word": "reiki"
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"sense": "Japanese form of alternative medicine",
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"sense": "Japanese form of alternative medicine",
"word": "रेकी"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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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