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"bold_roman_offsets": [
[
3,
4
],
[
6,
7
],
[
11,
12
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
1,
2
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
17,
22
]
],
"english": "To drop to tenth place.",
"roman": "Jū-i ni ochiru.",
"ruby": [
[
"十",
"じゅう"
],
[
"位",
"い"
],
[
"落",
"お"
]
],
"text": "十位に落ちる。",
"translation": "To drop to tenth place.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"rank, place"
],
"links": [
[
"rank",
"rank"
],
[
"place",
"place"
]
],
"tags": [
"-i"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"decimal place"
],
"tags": [
"-i"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"ghosts"
],
"links": [
[
"ghost",
"ghost"
]
],
"tags": [
"-i"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "い"
},
{
"ipa": "[i]"
}
],
"word": "位"
}
{
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"くらい"
],
"senses": [
{
"tags": [
"no-gloss"
]
}
],
"word": "位"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 位 meaning in Japanese (7.5kB)
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"subsection": "affix",
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}
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}
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"called_from": "parser/1336",
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}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (ffdbfc3 and b9346a0). 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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