"やく" meaning in Japanese

See やく in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: [ja̠kɯ̟] Forms: -yaku [romanization]
Etymology: (The following entry does not have a page created for it yet: 扼.) Etymology templates: {{ja-see|焼く|妬く|役|約|益|訳|厄|葯|扼|薬}} (The following entry does not have a page created for it yet: 扼.) Head templates: {{ja-pos|suffix}} やく • (-yaku)
  1. attaches to mimetic nouns, forming verbs executing that action Tags: morpheme Derived forms: 囁く (sasayaku) (ruby: (ささや)) (english: to whisper), 呟く (tsubuyaku) (ruby: (つぶや)) (english: to mutter), 輝く (kagayaku) (ruby: (かがや)) (english: to shine)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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        "10": "薬",
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        "4": "約",
        "5": "益",
        "6": "訳",
        "7": "厄",
        "8": "葯",
        "9": "扼"
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    "益",
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        },
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          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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          "english": "to mutter",
          "roman": "tsubuyaku",
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              "呟",
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          "english": "to shine",
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              "輝",
              "かがや"
            ]
          ],
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      ],
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    }
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          "呟",
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      ],
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    },
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          "輝",
          "かがや"
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      ],
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        "4": "約",
        "5": "益",
        "6": "訳",
        "7": "厄",
        "8": "葯",
        "9": "扼"
      },
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      "name": "ja-see"
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      },
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      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ja̠kɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "やく"
}

Download raw JSONL data for やく meaning in Japanese (1.6kB)

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  "path": [
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "やく",
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}

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