メイ in Japanese

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mei",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proper"
      },
      "expansion": "メイ • (Mei)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "name",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a transliteration of the English surname May"
      ],
      "id": "en-メイ-ja-name-07-X1QyR",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ],
        [
          "May",
          "May#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 64",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a transliteration of the English female given name May"
      ],
      "id": "en-メイ-ja-name-XnCaPMJM",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "May",
          "May#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[me̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "メイ"
}

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{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese katakana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese proper nouns",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mei",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proper"
      },
      "expansion": "メイ • (Mei)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese renderings of English surnames",
        "Japanese terms borrowed from English",
        "Japanese terms derived from English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a transliteration of the English surname May"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ],
        [
          "May",
          "May#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese renderings of English female given names",
        "Japanese terms borrowed from English",
        "Japanese terms derived from English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a transliteration of the English female given name May"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "May",
          "May#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[me̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "メイ"
}

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

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (7cef23e and 3c020d2). 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.

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"メイ" meaning in Japanese

Proper name