"ワイ" meaning in Japanese

See ワイ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: [ɰᵝa̠i] Forms: Wai [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from English Wy. Etymology templates: {{bor|ja|en|Wy}} English Wy Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper}} ワイ • (Wai)
  1. Wy Categories (place): Australia, Countries in Oceania
    Sense id: en-ワイ-ja-name-5AfQ3d~n Disambiguation of Australia: 38 34 28 Disambiguation of Countries in Oceania: 34 38 28 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese katakana, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese katakana: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 100 0 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: [ɰᵝa̠i] Forms: wai [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from English wye. Etymology templates: {{bor|ja|en|wye}} English wye Head templates: {{ja-noun}} ワイ • (wai)
  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y. Categories (topical): Latin letter names Categories (place): Australia, Countries in Oceania
    Sense id: en-ワイ-ja-noun-tCHRT5wx Disambiguation of Australia: 38 34 28 Disambiguation of Countries in Oceania: 34 38 28 Coordinate_terms: エー (ē) [Latin, letter-name], ビー () [Latin, letter-name], シー (shī) [Latin, letter-name], ディー () [Latin, letter-name], イー (ī) [Latin, letter-name], エフ (efu) [Latin, letter-name], ジー () [Latin, letter-name], エッチ (etchi) [Latin, letter-name], エイチ (eichi) [Latin, letter-name], アイ (ai) [Latin, letter-name], ジェー () [Latin, letter-name], ケー () [Latin, letter-name], エル (eru) [Latin, letter-name], エム (emu) [Latin, letter-name], エヌ (enu) [Latin, letter-name], オー (ō) [Latin, letter-name], ピー () [Latin, letter-name], キュー (kyū) [Latin, letter-name], アール (āru) [Latin, letter-name], エス (esu) [Latin, letter-name], ティー () [Latin, letter-name], ユー () [Latin, letter-name], ブイ (bui) [Latin, letter-name], ヴィー () [Latin, letter-name], ダブリュー (daburyū) [Latin, letter-name], エックス (ekkusu) [Latin, letter-name], ゼット (zetto) [Latin, letter-name]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Pronoun

IPA: [ɰᵝa̠i] Forms: ワイ [canonical], わい [canonical], wai [romanization]
Etymology: From Western Japanese わい (wai). Etymology templates: {{ja-r|わい}} わい (wai) Head templates: {{ja-pos|pronoun|わい}} ワイ or わい • (wai)
  1. (Internet slang) I, me Tags: Internet Categories (place): Australia, Countries in Oceania
    Sense id: en-ワイ-ja-pron-QtscG1eb Disambiguation of Australia: 38 34 28 Disambiguation of Countries in Oceania: 34 38 28 Categories (other): Japanese katakana, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese pronouns Disambiguation of Japanese katakana: 50 0 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for ワイ meaning in Japanese (6.8kB)

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    }
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  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese internet slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "I, me"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "I",
          "I"
        ],
        [
          "me",
          "me"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang) I, me"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ワイ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɰᵝa̠i]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Western Japanese",
    "ja:ワイ"
  ],
  "word": "ワイ"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese katakana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese proper nouns",
    "Japanese terms borrowed from English",
    "Japanese terms derived from English",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "ja:Australia",
    "ja:Countries in Oceania"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "Wy"
      },
      "expansion": "English Wy",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English Wy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Wai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "proper"
      },
      "expansion": "ワイ • (Wai)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Wy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ワイ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɰᵝa̠i]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ja:ワイ"
  ],
  "word": "ワイ"
}

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.