"わ" meaning in Japanese

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Particle

IPA: [ɰᵝa̠], [ɰᵝa̠] Forms: wa [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-}} Old Japanese Head templates: {{ja-pos|particle}} わ • (wa)
  1. (women's speech, dated) a particle used in the end of sentences to indicate admiration or emotion Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-わ-ja-particle-3yWuBgL5 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese particles Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 33 32 36 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 32 33 36 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 32 32 36 Disambiguation of Japanese particles: 50 50
  2. (dialectal or men's speech) a particle used in the end of sentences to indicate emphasis
    Sense id: en-わ-ja-particle-8f7X-PuI Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese particles Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 33 32 36 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 32 33 36 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 32 32 36 Disambiguation of Japanese particles: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Syllable

IPA: [ɰᵝa̠] Forms: wa [romanization]
Etymology: Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 和 in the cursive sōsho style. Etymology templates: {{m|ja|和}} 和, {{ja-kana-mannyogana-etym}} Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 和 in the cursive sōsho style Head templates: {{ja-pos|syllable}} わ • (wa)
  1. The hiragana syllable わ (wa). Its equivalent in katakana is ワ (wa). It is the forty-fourth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is わ行あ段 (wa-gyō a-dan, “row wa, section a”).
    Sense id: en-わ-ja-syllable-EN8TEKD4 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 33 32 36 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 32 33 36 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 32 32 36 Related terms: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 𛄲, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 𛀆, , , 𛀁, , , , ゚, , , , , , , ゙, , 𛅐, 𛄟, , 𛅑, , 𛅒, , , ゝ, ゞ,
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese dated terms",
        "Japanese terms with usage examples",
        "Japanese women's speech terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Wow, your hair is so long!",
          "roman": "Anata no kami wa nagai wa ne!",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "髪",
              "かみ"
            ],
            [
              "長",
              "なが"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "あなたの髪は長いわね!"
        },
        {
          "english": "I'm coming.",
          "roman": "Ima, iku wa.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "今",
              "いま"
            ],
            [
              "行",
              "い"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "今、行くわ。"
        },
        {
          "english": "I don't know.",
          "roman": "Shiranai wa.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "知",
              "し"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "知らないわ。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a particle used in the end of sentences to indicate admiration or emotion"
      ],
      "qualifier": "women's speech",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(women's speech, dated) a particle used in the end of sentences to indicate admiration or emotion"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese dialectal terms",
        "Japanese men's speech terms",
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I've no idea what he's saying.",
          "roman": "Nani itten no ka wakannē wa.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "何",
              "なに"
            ],
            [
              "言",
              "い"
            ],
            [
              "解",
              "わか"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "何言ってんのか解んねえわ。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a particle used in the end of sentences to indicate emphasis"
      ],
      "qualifier": "dialectal or men's speech",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal or men's speech) a particle used in the end of sentences to indicate emphasis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "わ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɰᵝa̠]"
    },
    {
      "other": "わ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɰᵝa̠]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Japanese particles#wa"
  ],
  "word": "わ"
}

{
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "羽",
    "把",
    "話",
    "回",
    "曲",
    "輪",
    "環",
    "和",
    "倭"
  ],
  "word": "わ"
}

{
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "我"
  ],
  "word": "わ"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "わ"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "syllable",
  "title": "わ",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "わ"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "particle",
  "title": "わ",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.