へえ in Japanese

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hē",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へえ",
      "roman": "fee",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "interjection",
        "hhira": "へえ"
      },
      "expansion": "へえ • (hē) ^(←へえ (fee)?)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Oh, really? I didn't know that."
      ],
      "id": "en-へえ-ja-intj-ljdyQq5e"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Kansai Japanese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Understood."
      ],
      "id": "en-へえ-ja-intj-M0MooSay",
      "links": [
        [
          "Matsumura, Akira",
          "w:ja:松村明"
        ],
        [
          "大辞林",
          "w:ja:大辞林"
        ],
        [
          "Tokyo",
          "w:Tokyo"
        ],
        [
          "Sanseidō",
          "w:Sanseidō"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly Kansai, feminine) Understood."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Kansai",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "へえ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[he̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "へえ"
}

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{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese interjections",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hē",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "へえ",
      "roman": "fee",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "interjection",
        "hhira": "へえ"
      },
      "expansion": "へえ • (hē) ^(←へえ (fee)?)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Oh, really? I didn't know that."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Kansai Japanese"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Understood."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Matsumura, Akira",
          "w:ja:松村明"
        ],
        [
          "大辞林",
          "w:ja:大辞林"
        ],
        [
          "Tokyo",
          "w:Tokyo"
        ],
        [
          "Sanseidō",
          "w:Sanseidō"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly Kansai, feminine) Understood."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Kansai",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "へえ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[he̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "へえ"
}

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"へえ" meaning in Japanese

Interjection