"友" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: Second grade kyōiku kanji [romanization]
  1. friend Tags: kanji

Proper name

Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (ゆう)), [romanization], Iu [romanization], いう [hiragana, historical]
Etymology templates: {{ja-see|とも}} Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper|ゆう|hhira=いう}} 友(ゆう) • (Yū) ^(←いう (Iu)?)
  1. a male given name Categories (topical): Japanese given names, Japanese male given names, Japanese male given names
    Sense id: en-友-ja-name-h8YdwBAs Disambiguation of Japanese male given names: 1 99 Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 13 9 1 8 10 21 0 39 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 9 1 8 10 20 0 39 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 38 62 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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Download raw JSONL data for 友 meaning in Japanese (2.4kB)

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    "友"
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  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "友",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "友"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
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  "title": "友",
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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 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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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