"もてあそぶ" meaning in Japanese

See もてあそぶ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [mo̞te̞a̠so̞bɯ̟]
Head templates: {{ja-verb|tr=trans|type=1}} もてあそぶ • (moteasobu) transitive godan (stem もてあそび (moteasobi), past もてあそんだ (moteasonda)) Forms: moteasobu [romanization], もてあそび [stem], もてあそんだ [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], もてあそば [error-unrecognized-form], moteasoba [error-unrecognized-form], もてあそび [error-unrecognized-form], moteasobi [error-unrecognized-form], もてあそぶ [error-unrecognized-form], moteasobu [error-unrecognized-form], もてあそべ [error-unrecognized-form], moteasobe [error-unrecognized-form], もてあそばれる [passive], moteasobareru [passive], もてあそばせる [causative], もてあそばす [causative], moteasobaseru [causative], moteasobasu [causative], もてあそべる [potential], moteasoberu [potential], もてあそぼう [volitional], moteasobō [volitional], もてあそばない [negative], moteasobanai [negative], もてあそばず [continuative, negative], moteasobazu [continuative, negative], もてあそびます [formal], moteasobimasu [formal], もてあそんだ [perfective], moteasonda [perfective], もてあそんで [conjunctive], moteasonde [conjunctive], もてあそべば [conditional, hypothetical], moteasobeba [conditional, hypothetical]
  1. to play with (a toy, a trifle, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with
    Sense id: en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-07UAgkgj Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 66 3 28 3 Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu: 27 28 22 22 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 56 8 30 7 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 61 5 30 4 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 62 4 30 4 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 63 4 29 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 65 4 28 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 66 4 28 3
  2. to toy with, to make sport of, to make a fool of, to trifle with
    Sense id: en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-4iOXrnY9 Categories (other): Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu: 27 28 22 22
  3. to do with as one pleases
    Sense id: en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-xETpT-CN Categories (other): Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu: 27 28 22 22
  4. to appreciate
    Sense id: en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-iPFP-u3n Categories (other): Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu Disambiguation of Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu: 27 28 22 22

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moteasobu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそび",
      "roman": "moteasobi",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそんだ",
      "roman": "moteasonda",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-go-bu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasoba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそび",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそぶ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそべ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそべる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasoberu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそぼう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそびます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそんだ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasonda",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそんで",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasonde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそべば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "tr": "trans",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "もてあそぶ • (moteasobu) transitive godan (stem もてあそび (moteasobi), past もてあそんだ (moteasonda))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "66 3 28 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 28 22 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "56 8 30 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 5 30 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 4 30 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 4 29 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 4 28 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 4 28 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She liked to finger his lobes.",
          "ref": "1947, Toyoshima Yoshio (豊島与志雄), Tochi ni Kaeru: Kindai Setsuwa (「土地に還る ――近代説話――」), Miraisha (未来社) (1965, Toyoshima Yoshio Chosakushū vol.4 (『豊島与志雄著作集』第四巻))",
          "roman": "Kanojo wa kare no jida o yubisaki de moteasobu no ga suki deshita.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "彼",
              "かの"
            ],
            [
              "女",
              "じょ"
            ],
            [
              "彼",
              "かれ"
            ],
            [
              "耳",
              "じ"
            ],
            [
              "朶",
              "だ"
            ],
            [
              "指",
              "ゆび"
            ],
            [
              "先",
              "さき"
            ],
            [
              "好",
              "す"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "彼女は彼の耳朶を指先でもてあそぶのが好きでした。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to play with (a toy, a trifle, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with"
      ],
      "id": "en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-07UAgkgj",
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "fiddle",
          "fiddle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 28 22 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "As men are well accustomed to making sport of women, the girls are quite used to toying with men.",
          "ref": "1931, Kunieda Shirō (国枝史郎), Ahen wo Nomu Bishōnen (「鴉片を喫む美少年」), Michitani (未知谷) (1993, Kunieda Shiro Kiden Zenshū vol.6 (『国枝史郎伝奇全集』巻六))",
          "roman": "Otoko ga onna o moteasobu koto ni, sukkari narete iru yō ni, kanojora wa otoko o moteasobu koto ni, koremata sukkari narete iru noda.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "男",
              "おとこ"
            ],
            [
              "女",
              "おんな"
            ],
            [
              "弄",
              "もてあそ"
            ],
            [
              "慣",
              "な"
            ],
            [
              "彼",
              "かの"
            ],
            [
              "女",
              "じょ"
            ],
            [
              "等",
              "ら"
            ],
            [
              "男",
              "おとこ"
            ],
            [
              "弄",
              "もてあそ"
            ],
            [
              "慣",
              "な"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "男が女を弄ぶことに、すっかり慣れているように、彼女等は男を弄ぶことに、これまたすっかり慣れているのだ。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to toy with, to make sport of, to make a fool of, to trifle with"
      ],
      "id": "en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-4iOXrnY9",
      "links": [
        [
          "toy with",
          "toy with"
        ],
        [
          "sport",
          "sport"
        ],
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "trifle with",
          "trifle with"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 28 22 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to do with as one pleases"
      ],
      "id": "en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-xETpT-CN",
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 28 22 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Masters of tea ceremonies have to always devise new ideas and prepare materials as the occasion demands in serving tea, as waka poets in creating waka and haiku poets in creating haiku.",
          "ref": "1927, Masaoka Shiki (正岡子規), Bokujū Itteki (『墨汁一滴』), Iwanami Shoten (岩波書店)",
          "roman": "Yueni chajin no cha o moteasobu wa kajin no uta o tsukuri haijin no haiku o tsukuru ga gotoku tsuneni shinsen-naru ishō o anshutsushi rinkiōhen no zai o yōsu.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "故",
              "ゆえ"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "人",
              "じん"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "玩",
              "もてあそ"
            ],
            [
              "歌",
              "か"
            ],
            [
              "人",
              "じん"
            ],
            [
              "歌",
              "うた"
            ],
            [
              "俳",
              "はい"
            ],
            [
              "人",
              "じん"
            ],
            [
              "俳",
              "はい"
            ],
            [
              "句",
              "く"
            ],
            [
              "如",
              "ごと"
            ],
            [
              "常",
              "つね"
            ],
            [
              "新",
              "しん"
            ],
            [
              "鮮",
              "せん"
            ],
            [
              "意",
              "い"
            ],
            [
              "匠",
              "しょう"
            ],
            [
              "案",
              "あん"
            ],
            [
              "出",
              "しゅつ"
            ],
            [
              "臨",
              "りん"
            ],
            [
              "機",
              "き"
            ],
            [
              "応",
              "おう"
            ],
            [
              "変",
              "へん"
            ],
            [
              "材",
              "ざい"
            ],
            [
              "要",
              "よう"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "故に茶人の茶を玩ぶは歌人の歌をつくり俳人の俳句をつくるが如く常に新鮮なる意匠を案出し臨機応変の材を要す。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to appreciate"
      ],
      "id": "en-もてあそぶ-ja-verb-iPFP-u3n",
      "links": [
        [
          "appreciate",
          "appreciate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "もてあそぶ"
    },
    {
      "other": "もてあそぶ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mo̞te̞a̠so̞bɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "もてあそぶ"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese godan verbs",
    "Japanese godan verbs ending with -bu",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with manual fragments",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese transitive verbs",
    "Japanese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "moteasobu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそび",
      "roman": "moteasobi",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそんだ",
      "roman": "moteasonda",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-go-bu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasoba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそび",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそぶ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそべ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそべる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasoberu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそぼう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそばず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそびます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそんだ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasonda",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそんで",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasonde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もてあそべば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "moteasobeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "tr": "trans",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "もてあそぶ • (moteasobu) transitive godan (stem もてあそび (moteasobi), past もてあそんだ (moteasonda))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She liked to finger his lobes.",
          "ref": "1947, Toyoshima Yoshio (豊島与志雄), Tochi ni Kaeru: Kindai Setsuwa (「土地に還る ――近代説話――」), Miraisha (未来社) (1965, Toyoshima Yoshio Chosakushū vol.4 (『豊島与志雄著作集』第四巻))",
          "roman": "Kanojo wa kare no jida o yubisaki de moteasobu no ga suki deshita.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "彼",
              "かの"
            ],
            [
              "女",
              "じょ"
            ],
            [
              "彼",
              "かれ"
            ],
            [
              "耳",
              "じ"
            ],
            [
              "朶",
              "だ"
            ],
            [
              "指",
              "ゆび"
            ],
            [
              "先",
              "さき"
            ],
            [
              "好",
              "す"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "彼女は彼の耳朶を指先でもてあそぶのが好きでした。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to play with (a toy, a trifle, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "fiddle",
          "fiddle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "As men are well accustomed to making sport of women, the girls are quite used to toying with men.",
          "ref": "1931, Kunieda Shirō (国枝史郎), Ahen wo Nomu Bishōnen (「鴉片を喫む美少年」), Michitani (未知谷) (1993, Kunieda Shiro Kiden Zenshū vol.6 (『国枝史郎伝奇全集』巻六))",
          "roman": "Otoko ga onna o moteasobu koto ni, sukkari narete iru yō ni, kanojora wa otoko o moteasobu koto ni, koremata sukkari narete iru noda.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "男",
              "おとこ"
            ],
            [
              "女",
              "おんな"
            ],
            [
              "弄",
              "もてあそ"
            ],
            [
              "慣",
              "な"
            ],
            [
              "彼",
              "かの"
            ],
            [
              "女",
              "じょ"
            ],
            [
              "等",
              "ら"
            ],
            [
              "男",
              "おとこ"
            ],
            [
              "弄",
              "もてあそ"
            ],
            [
              "慣",
              "な"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "男が女を弄ぶことに、すっかり慣れているように、彼女等は男を弄ぶことに、これまたすっかり慣れているのだ。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to toy with, to make sport of, to make a fool of, to trifle with"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "toy with",
          "toy with"
        ],
        [
          "sport",
          "sport"
        ],
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "trifle with",
          "trifle with"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to do with as one pleases"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Masters of tea ceremonies have to always devise new ideas and prepare materials as the occasion demands in serving tea, as waka poets in creating waka and haiku poets in creating haiku.",
          "ref": "1927, Masaoka Shiki (正岡子規), Bokujū Itteki (『墨汁一滴』), Iwanami Shoten (岩波書店)",
          "roman": "Yueni chajin no cha o moteasobu wa kajin no uta o tsukuri haijin no haiku o tsukuru ga gotoku tsuneni shinsen-naru ishō o anshutsushi rinkiōhen no zai o yōsu.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "故",
              "ゆえ"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "人",
              "じん"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "玩",
              "もてあそ"
            ],
            [
              "歌",
              "か"
            ],
            [
              "人",
              "じん"
            ],
            [
              "歌",
              "うた"
            ],
            [
              "俳",
              "はい"
            ],
            [
              "人",
              "じん"
            ],
            [
              "俳",
              "はい"
            ],
            [
              "句",
              "く"
            ],
            [
              "如",
              "ごと"
            ],
            [
              "常",
              "つね"
            ],
            [
              "新",
              "しん"
            ],
            [
              "鮮",
              "せん"
            ],
            [
              "意",
              "い"
            ],
            [
              "匠",
              "しょう"
            ],
            [
              "案",
              "あん"
            ],
            [
              "出",
              "しゅつ"
            ],
            [
              "臨",
              "りん"
            ],
            [
              "機",
              "き"
            ],
            [
              "応",
              "おう"
            ],
            [
              "変",
              "へん"
            ],
            [
              "材",
              "ざい"
            ],
            [
              "要",
              "よう"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "故に茶人の茶を玩ぶは歌人の歌をつくり俳人の俳句をつくるが如く常に新鮮なる意匠を案出し臨機応変の材を要す。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to appreciate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appreciate",
          "appreciate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "もてあそぶ"
    },
    {
      "other": "もてあそぶ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mo̞te̞a̠so̞bɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "もてあそぶ"
}

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