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"etymology_text": "First cited to The Tale of Genji (c. 1001-1014).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ka-",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "prefix"
},
"expansion": "か • (ka-)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "か + 弱い (yowai) → か弱い (kayowai)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "か + 細い (hosoi) → か細い (kabosoi)",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"very"
],
"links": [
[
"very",
"very"
]
],
"qualifier": "non-productive",
"raw_glosses": [
"(emphatic, before an adjective, non-productive) very"
],
"raw_tags": [
"before an adjective"
],
"tags": [
"emphatic",
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"The Tale of Genji"
],
"word": "か"
}
{
"categories": [
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Japanese hiragana",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese suffixes",
"Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese",
"Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "ojp",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old Japanese",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Japanese. Only persists in stems. No longer productive in Modern Japanese.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "-ka",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "か • (-ka)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "suffix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"forms 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi, “-na adjectives”) from stems, indicating the state or feeling of an object"
],
"links": [
[
"形容動詞",
"形容動詞#Japanese"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "か"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"日",
"香",
"蚊",
"鹿",
"彼"
],
"word": "か"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"下",
"火",
"花",
"何",
"科",
"夏",
"家",
"歌",
"化",
"荷",
"加",
"果",
"貨",
"課",
"可",
"仮",
"価",
"河",
"過",
"佳",
"苛",
"架",
"華",
"菓",
"渦",
"嫁",
"暇",
"禍",
"靴",
"寡",
"箇",
"稼",
"瓜",
"禾",
"伽",
"迦",
"嘉",
"霞",
"戈",
"卦",
"呵",
"訛",
"訶",
"瑕",
"窩",
"顆",
"ヶ"
],
"word": "か"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). 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.