See うん in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"antonyms": [
{
"roman": "ūn",
"word": "ううん: nope"
},
{
"word": "nah"
},
{
"word": "nuh-uh"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "雲",
"2": "運",
"3": "云",
"4": "暈",
"5": "蘊",
"6": "吽"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "ja-see-kango"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "응",
"t": "yeah, yes"
},
"expansion": "Korean 응 (eung, “yeah, yes”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Korean 응 (eung, “yeah, yes”).",
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{
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"tags": [
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]
}
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},
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"pos": "intj",
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"雲",
"運",
"云",
"暈",
"蘊",
"吽"
],
"senses": [
{
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"_dis": "32 27 19 20 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "31 32 16 19 1",
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}
],
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"yeah, uh-huh, mhm (an interjection expressing agreement)"
],
"id": "en-うん-ja-intj-p8hHHnSm",
"links": [
[
"yeah",
"yeah"
],
[
"uh-huh",
"uh-huh"
],
[
"mhm",
"mhm"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) yeah, uh-huh, mhm (an interjection expressing agreement)"
],
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"english": "yes",
"roman": "hai",
"word": "はい"
}
],
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"informal"
]
}
],
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"other": "うん"
},
{
"ipa": "[ɯ̟̃ɴ]"
},
{
"ipa": "/m̩/"
},
{
"ipa": "[m̩˦˨]"
}
],
"word": "うん"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
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"tags": [
"romanization"
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}
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"lang_code": "ja",
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{
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"_dis": "32 19 16 25 10",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 22 13 24 8",
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"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 25 12 23 4",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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}
],
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"strainingly, with a grunt"
],
"id": "en-うん-ja-adv-WV7PFv8y",
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]
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},
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},
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"glosses": [
"sufferingly, groaningly"
],
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"sufferingly",
"sufferingly"
],
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"groaningly",
"groaningly"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[ɯ̟̃ɴ]"
}
],
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"Edo period",
"Kanto"
],
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}
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"forms": [
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"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
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{
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"derived": [
{
"english": "poop",
"roman": "unko",
"word": "うんこ"
},
{
"english": "poop",
"roman": "unchi",
"word": "うんち"
}
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],
"english": "to drink with gusto",
"roman": "unnomu",
"ruby": [
[
"飲",
"の"
]
],
"text": "うん飲む",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"added to various verbs to indicate forceful or excessive action"
],
"id": "en-うん-ja-prefix-SBaRTIz3",
"links": [
[
"forceful",
"forceful#English"
],
[
"excessive",
"excessive#English"
]
],
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"(archaic) added to various verbs to indicate forceful or excessive action"
],
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"archaic",
"morpheme"
]
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}
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}
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"kind": "other",
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"source": "w"
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"text": "うん十億円",
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"text": "うん十年",
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7
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7
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"english": "several hundreds of millions",
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],
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]
],
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{
"word": "数"
}
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "うん"
}
{
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{
"roman": "ūn",
"word": "ううん: nope"
},
{
"word": "nah"
},
{
"word": "nuh-uh"
}
],
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"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese hiragana",
"Japanese interjections",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese prefixes",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"1": "雲",
"2": "運",
"3": "云",
"4": "暈",
"5": "蘊",
"6": "吽"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "ja-see-kango"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ko",
"2": "응",
"t": "yeah, yes"
},
"expansion": "Korean 응 (eung, “yeah, yes”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
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"tags": [
"romanization"
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"雲",
"運",
"云",
"暈",
"蘊",
"吽"
],
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{
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"Japanese informal terms"
],
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"yeah, uh-huh, mhm (an interjection expressing agreement)"
],
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"yeah",
"yeah"
],
[
"uh-huh",
"uh-huh"
],
[
"mhm",
"mhm"
]
],
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"(informal) yeah, uh-huh, mhm (an interjection expressing agreement)"
],
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]
}
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},
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},
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"ipa": "/m̩/"
},
{
"ipa": "[m̩˦˨]"
}
],
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"roman": "hai",
"word": "はい"
}
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}
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"Japanese hiragana",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese prefixes",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
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{
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"tags": [
"romanization"
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}
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{
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],
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[
"strainingly",
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"grunt"
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{
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"sufferingly, groaningly"
],
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"sufferingly",
"sufferingly"
],
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"groaningly",
"groaningly"
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{
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}
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}
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"Japanese hiragana",
"Japanese lemmas",
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"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
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"roman": "unko",
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"word": "うんち"
}
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"romanization"
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"roman": "unnomu",
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"の"
]
],
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"forceful",
"forceful#English"
],
[
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],
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{
"word": "数"
}
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"morpheme"
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}
],
"word": "うん"
}
Download raw JSONL data for うん meaning in Japanese (5.7kB)
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