See まさか in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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Download raw JSONL data for まさか meaning in Japanese (8.4kB)
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"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"まさか"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "adverb",
"title": "まさか",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"まさか"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "interjection",
"title": "まさか",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"まさか"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "まさか",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (58c391d and f1c2b61). 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.