See 卑しい in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "卑(いや)しい • (iyashii) -i (adverbial 卑(いや)しく (iyashiku))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"adverbial": "く",
"attributive": "い",
"conditional": "ければ",
"conjunctive": "くて",
"continuative": "く",
"degree": "さ",
"formal": "い です",
"formal_negative": "く ない です",
"formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
"formal_past": "かった です",
"hypothetical": "けれ",
"imperative": "かれ",
"imperfective": "かろ",
"informal_negative": "く ない",
"informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
"informal_past": "かった",
"kana": "いやし",
"lemma": "卑し",
"provisional": "かったら",
"terminal": "い",
"volitional": "かろう"
},
"name": "ja-adj-infl"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_english_offsets": [
[
28,
33
]
],
"bold_roman_offsets": [
[
34,
41
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
11,
14
]
],
"english": "I thought those were rather lowly words for a king",
"roman": "daiō ni shite wa shōshō kotoba ga iyashii to omotta",
"ruby": [
[
"大",
"だい"
],
[
"王",
"おう"
],
[
"少",
"しょう"
],
[
"々",
"しょう"
],
[
"言",
"こと"
],
[
"葉",
"ば"
],
[
"卑",
"いや"
],
[
"思",
"おも"
]
],
"text": "大王にしては少々言葉が卑しいと思った",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"lowborn, lowly"
],
"links": [
[
"lowborn",
"lowborn"
],
[
"lowly",
"lowly"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"shabby"
],
"links": [
[
"shabby",
"shabby"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"greedy, avaricious"
],
"links": [
[
"greedy",
"greedy"
],
[
"avaricious",
"avaricious"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"vulgar, mean (person)"
],
"links": [
[
"vulgar",
"vulgar"
],
[
"mean",
"mean"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "いやしい"
},
{
"other": "いやしい"
},
{
"ipa": "[ija̠ɕii]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Nihon Kokugo Daijiten",
"Nihon Shoki"
],
"word": "卑しい"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 卑しい meaning in Japanese (7.8kB)
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