See てふ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"categories": [
"Japanese female given names",
"Japanese given names"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese female given names",
"Japanese given names",
"Japanese male given names",
"Japanese unisex given names"
],
"glosses": [
"a unisex given name"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"word": "てふ"
}
Download raw JSONL data for てふ meaning in Japanese (6.0kB)
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
"path": [
"てふ"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "phrase",
"title": "てふ",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"てふ"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "phrase",
"title": "てふ",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"てふ"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "てふ",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"てふ"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "てふ",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). 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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