"shinai" meaning in English

See shinai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: shinais [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 竹刀(しない) (shinai). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|ja|-}} Japanese, {{ja-r|竹刀|しない}} 竹刀(しない) (shinai) Head templates: {{en-noun}} shinai (plural shinais)
  1. A bamboo sword used in the Japanese martial art kendo. Categories (topical): Swords Translations (Translations): 竹刀 (zhúdāo) (Chinese Mandarin), 竹劍 /竹剑 (Chinese Mandarin), 竹刀 (shinai) (Japanese), 죽도 (jukdo) (alt: 竹刀) (Korean)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "竹刀",
        "2": "しない"
      },
      "expansion": "竹刀(しない) (shinai)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 竹刀(しない) (shinai).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shinais",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shinai (plural shinais)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Korean translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Swords",
          "orig": "en:Swords",
          "parents": [
            "Weapons",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bamboo sword used in the Japanese martial art kendo."
      ],
      "id": "en-shinai-en-noun-MClat3hr",
      "links": [
        [
          "bamboo",
          "bamboo"
        ],
        [
          "sword",
          "sword"
        ],
        [
          "kendo",
          "kendo"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhúdāo",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "竹刀"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "竹劍 /竹剑"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shinai",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "竹刀"
        },
        {
          "alt": "竹刀",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jukdo",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "죽도"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shinai"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Japanese",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "竹刀",
        "2": "しない"
      },
      "expansion": "竹刀(しない) (shinai)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 竹刀(しない) (shinai).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shinais",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shinai (plural shinais)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Japanese",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Swords"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bamboo sword used in the Japanese martial art kendo."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bamboo",
          "bamboo"
        ],
        [
          "sword",
          "sword"
        ],
        [
          "kendo",
          "kendo"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhúdāo",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "竹刀"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "竹劍 /竹剑"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shinai",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "竹刀"
    },
    {
      "alt": "竹刀",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jukdo",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "죽도"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shinai"
}

Download raw JSONL data for shinai meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (87ad358 and ea19a0a). 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.