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{
"antonyms": [
{
"english": "with negative verbs",
"roman": "zenzen",
"word": "全然: not at all"
},
{
"word": "completely never"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"forms": [
{
"form": "yoku",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "よく • (yoku)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "with negative verbs",
"roman": "amari",
"word": "余り: not very often"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "not much"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "sometimes, at times, occasionally",
"roman": "tokidoki",
"ruby": [
[
"時",
"とき"
],
[
"々",
"どき"
]
],
"word": "時々"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "34 34 5 19 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"良く, 善く, 克く: adverbial form of よい (yoi, “good”) good, well"
],
"id": "en-よく-ja-adj-5QphrheM",
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"善く",
"善く#Japanese"
],
[
"克く",
"克く#Japanese"
],
[
"よい",
"よい#Japanese"
],
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"well",
"well"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "34 34 5 19 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Well done!",
"roman": "Yoku yatta.",
"text": "よくやった。",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Well done for making it this far.",
"roman": "Yoku kita na.",
"ruby": [
[
"来",
"き"
]
],
"text": "よく来たな。"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "ii, “good”",
"word": "いい"
}
],
"glosses": [
"良く, 善く, 克く: adverbial form of よい (yoi, “good”) good, well",
"adverbial form of いい (ii, “good”)"
],
"id": "en-よく-ja-adj-rW2MNbNu",
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"善く",
"善く#Japanese"
],
[
"克く",
"克く#Japanese"
],
[
"よい",
"よい#Japanese"
],
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"well",
"well"
],
[
"いい",
"いい#Japanese"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"form-of"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I read books a lot.",
"roman": "Watashi wa hon o yoku yomimasu.",
"ruby": [
[
"私",
"わたし"
],
[
"本",
"ほん"
],
[
"読",
"よ"
]
],
"text": "私は本をよく読みます。"
}
],
"glosses": [
"良く: frequently, often"
],
"id": "en-よく-ja-adj-VbnsXS0N",
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"frequently",
"frequently"
],
[
"often",
"often"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "34 34 5 19 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 27 2 39 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "You've got guts saying something like that.",
"roman": "Yoku sonna koto ieru ne.",
"ruby": [
[
"言",
"い"
]
],
"text": "よくそんなこと言えるね。"
}
],
"glosses": [
"良く, 善く: having astonishing ability or guts"
],
"id": "en-よく-ja-adj--hfop1BX",
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"善く",
"善く#Japanese"
],
[
"astonishing",
"astonishing"
],
[
"ability",
"ability"
],
[
"guts",
"guts"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 96 2",
"roman": "yō",
"sense": "having astonishing ability or guts",
"word": "よう"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 96 2",
"roman": "yoku zo",
"sense": "having astonishing ability or guts",
"word": "よくぞ"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 96 2",
"roman": "yoku mo",
"sense": "having astonishing ability or guts",
"word": "よくも"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "those who can do this",
"ref": "Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian, kanbun kundoku",
"roman": "yoku kore o okonau mono",
"ruby": [
[
"能",
"よ"
],
[
"之",
"これ"
],
[
"行",
"おこな"
],
[
"者",
"もの"
]
],
"text": "能く之を行う者"
}
],
"glosses": [
"能く: (literary) able to"
],
"id": "en-よく-ja-adj-CtTQnRLp",
"links": [
[
"能く",
"能く#Japanese"
],
[
"able to",
"able to"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "yō",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "よう"
}
],
"word": "よく"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"english": "with negative verbs",
"roman": "zenzen",
"word": "全然: not at all"
},
{
"word": "completely never"
}
],
"categories": [
"Japanese adjective forms",
"Japanese hiragana",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese non-lemma forms",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"forms": [
{
"form": "yoku",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "よく • (yoku)",
"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"english": "with negative verbs",
"roman": "amari",
"word": "余り: not very often"
},
{
"word": "not much"
},
{
"english": "sometimes, at times, occasionally",
"roman": "tokidoki",
"ruby": [
[
"時",
"とき"
],
[
"々",
"どき"
]
],
"word": "時々"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"良く, 善く, 克く: adverbial form of よい (yoi, “good”) good, well"
],
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"善く",
"善く#Japanese"
],
[
"克く",
"克く#Japanese"
],
[
"よい",
"よい#Japanese"
],
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"well",
"well"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Well done!",
"roman": "Yoku yatta.",
"text": "よくやった。",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Well done for making it this far.",
"roman": "Yoku kita na.",
"ruby": [
[
"来",
"き"
]
],
"text": "よく来たな。"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "ii, “good”",
"word": "いい"
}
],
"glosses": [
"良く, 善く, 克く: adverbial form of よい (yoi, “good”) good, well",
"adverbial form of いい (ii, “good”)"
],
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"善く",
"善く#Japanese"
],
[
"克く",
"克く#Japanese"
],
[
"よい",
"よい#Japanese"
],
[
"good",
"good"
],
[
"well",
"well"
],
[
"いい",
"いい#Japanese"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial",
"form-of"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I read books a lot.",
"roman": "Watashi wa hon o yoku yomimasu.",
"ruby": [
[
"私",
"わたし"
],
[
"本",
"ほん"
],
[
"読",
"よ"
]
],
"text": "私は本をよく読みます。"
}
],
"glosses": [
"良く: frequently, often"
],
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"frequently",
"frequently"
],
[
"often",
"often"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "You've got guts saying something like that.",
"roman": "Yoku sonna koto ieru ne.",
"ruby": [
[
"言",
"い"
]
],
"text": "よくそんなこと言えるね。"
}
],
"glosses": [
"良く, 善く: having astonishing ability or guts"
],
"links": [
[
"良く",
"良く#Japanese"
],
[
"善く",
"善く#Japanese"
],
[
"astonishing",
"astonishing"
],
[
"ability",
"ability"
],
[
"guts",
"guts"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese literary terms",
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "those who can do this",
"ref": "Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian, kanbun kundoku",
"roman": "yoku kore o okonau mono",
"ruby": [
[
"能",
"よ"
],
[
"之",
"これ"
],
[
"行",
"おこな"
],
[
"者",
"もの"
]
],
"text": "能く之を行う者"
}
],
"glosses": [
"能く: (literary) able to"
],
"links": [
[
"能く",
"能く#Japanese"
],
[
"able to",
"able to"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "yō",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "よう"
},
{
"roman": "yō",
"sense": "having astonishing ability or guts",
"word": "よう"
},
{
"roman": "yoku zo",
"sense": "having astonishing ability or guts",
"word": "よくぞ"
},
{
"roman": "yoku mo",
"sense": "having astonishing ability or guts",
"word": "よくも"
}
],
"word": "よく"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"欲",
"翼"
],
"word": "よく"
}
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